{"id":7976,"date":"2016-09-12T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2016-09-12T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:15:37","slug":"arilus-cristatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/arilus-cristatus\/","title":{"rendered":"Arilus cristatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7977\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160912-wheel-bugs.jpg\" alt=\"procreating\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160912-wheel-bugs.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160912-wheel-bugs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160912-wheel-bugs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160912-wheel-bugs-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reproductive cycle of the wheel bug initiates in autumn. When a pair of wheel bugs encounter each other and have coitus, the female will lay 40-200 small, brown, cylindrical eggs on a tree twig, and eventually die. The eggs will hatch in the next spring into eighth millimeter long red nymphs, which will undergo 5 molts until they reach the adult stage the following summer.<br \/>They are predators upon soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars, Japanese beetles, etc., which they pierce with their beak to inject salivary fluids that dissolve soft tissue. Because most of their prey are pests, wheel bugs are considered as beneficial to the garden as ladybugs. They are also known for eating stinkbugs.-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wheel_bug\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n(these two in a q.alba)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-flora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7978,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}