{"id":972,"date":"2010-04-24T21:19:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=972"},"modified":"2010-04-24T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:25:04","slug":"new-to-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"New to the List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always fun to find a new (to us) species for the list, even when it&#8217;s a small assassin bug:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-973\" title=\"bug-on-plantain018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain018.jpg 310w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain018-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><!--more--> It flew up in front of us and then landed on the flower stalk of this plantain&#8230;and a look in my field guide and a trip to BugGuide.net confirmed that it&#8217;s a Yellow-bellied Bee Assassin, <em>Apiomerus flaviventris. <\/em> You can just get a hint of the yellow &amp; dark striped belly in the above image.\u00a0 Strikingly handsome little critter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-975\" title=\"bug-on-plantain019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain019-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain019-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/bug-on-plantain019.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always fun to find a new (to us) species for the list, even when it&#8217;s a small assassin bug:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,38,23,70],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-beauty","tag-insect","tag-observation","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}