{"id":115,"date":"2009-09-01T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/09\/01\/090901_shieldbug\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T18:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T23:36:05","slug":"090901_shieldbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/01\/090901_shieldbug\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be in a photographic rut lately, but the insect world has presented some opportunities too good to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted this unknown variety of shield or stink bug on one of the red-tipped photinia in our front flowerbed. I browsed in vain through more than 500 photos via Google&#8217;s image search without finding a match for this particular coloration and pattern, but I suspect there are thousands of variations. Anyway, I don&#8217;t recall ever seeing one quite like this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/beetle1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of shield bug\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/beetle2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of shield bug\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be in a photographic rut lately, but the insect world has presented some opportunities too good to ignore. I spotted this unknown variety of shield or stink bug on one of the red-tipped photinia in our front flowerbed. I browsed in vain through more than 500 photos via Google&#8217;s image search without&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/01\/090901_shieldbug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bugged<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-photography","category-wildlife-inverts","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}