{"id":6768,"date":"2018-09-22T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2020-08-14T01:51:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:51:56","slug":"cuckoo-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/cuckoo-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>UPDATED 8\/7\/2020: I&#8217;ve since learned a bit more about bee identification and this is not a cuckoo wasp &#8211; it is a type of sweat bee &#8211; likely Augochloropsis &#8211; perhaps A.metallica.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These tiny iridescent wasps are barely seen but so beautiful up close.\u00a0 My best guess at identification is that this is some type of cuckoo wasp, perhaps&#8230; a family of parasitic wasps that lay their eggs in other creatures.\u00a0 Here it feeds on mountain mint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6769\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9614TTT.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9614TTT.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9614TTT-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_9614TTT-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED 8\/7\/2020: I&#8217;ve since learned a bit more about bee identification and this is not a cuckoo wasp &#8211; it is a type of sweat bee &#8211; likely Augochloropsis &#8211; perhaps A.metallica. &nbsp; These tiny iridescent wasps are barely seen but so beautiful up close.\u00a0 My best guess at identification is that this is some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,922,923,1001,11,1188],"tags":[15,294,832,293,1215,984,1196,1240,1160],"class_list":["post-6768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","category-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint","tag-garden","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-pollinator","tag-pycnanthemum-muticum","tag-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint","tag-wasp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}