{"id":7053,"date":"2020-08-23T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2020-09-13T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:19:39","slug":"yellow-spragueia-moth-spragueia-apicalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/yellow-spragueia-moth-spragueia-apicalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Spragueia Moth (Spragueia apicalis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next in the line up of &#8220;Things you See on Mountain Mint,&#8221; the Yellow Spragueia Moth (Spragueia apicalis).\u00a0 Males and females of this species look different so this is a male.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"20200823_CMA_Yellow Spragueia Moth 3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3934-Edit.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one made me smile because of those big giant eyes.\u00a0 Especially in the image below &#8211; he just seemed to be keeping an eye on me.\u00a0 He was a relatively small moth &#8211; this is Pycnanthemum muticum (Short-toothed mountain mint).\u00a0 The flower heads aren&#8217;t all that large.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"20200823_CMA_Yellow Spragueia Moth\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3923-Edit.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a generous member of the Moths of the Eastern United States Group on facebook who helped me with ID of this one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"20200823_CMA_Yellow Spragueia Moth 2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3931-Edit.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re interested in seeing the other species I&#8217;ve photographed on the mountain mint so far this summer (at least the ones I&#8217;ve gotten around to identifying and publishing so far) click the menu link above under &#8220;In the Garden\/Native Plants.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/category\/in-the-garden\/native-plants\/things-you-see-on-mountain-mint\/\">Things you See on Mountain Mint<\/a>.\u00a0 There are SO many still to come!\u00a0 This plant is FANTASTIC for wildlife visitors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next in the line up of &#8220;Things you See on Mountain Mint,&#8221; the Yellow Spragueia Moth (Spragueia apicalis).\u00a0 Males and females of this species look different so this is a male. This one made me smile because of those big giant eyes.\u00a0 Especially in the image below &#8211; he just seemed to be keeping an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,1180,922,923,1001,1130,300,1188],"tags":[482,15,955,294,832,1189,293,1126,1215,1018,1196,1240],"class_list":["post-7053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-flowers","category-gardening-2","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-native-plants","category-portraiture","category-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint","tag-animal","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-lepidoptera","tag-macro","tag-moth","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-pycnanthemum-muticum","tag-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}