{"id":7581,"date":"2019-05-02T21:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:24:10","slug":"wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/05\/wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This evening, I went out to look at the paper wasp nest that is well-hidden in the native plants garden at the church. I&#8217;ve learned that in the hour before sunset, the founder wasp rests herself on the nest, between the nest and its supporting twig, just below the petiole. And that&#8217;s exactly where she was when I got out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"623\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a-1024x623.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a-1024x623.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a-1200x731.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlogMay0219a.png 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My camera is a good tool for getting a close look at her without getting too close; I have a healthy respect of wasps and have no desire to provoke her into stinging me. Looking at the photos I took of her, it looks like she has added some cells to the nest. The light began fading rapidly while I was taking photos, and it wasn&#8217;t long before the camera would no longer focus on the nest; as a result, I didn&#8217;t get any photos looking into the ends of the cells, so I&#8217;m not sure whether the cells contain any eggs or larvae.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I went out to look at the paper wasp nest that is well-hidden in the native plants garden at the church. I&#8217;ve learned that in the hour before sunset, the founder wasp rests herself on the nest, between the nest and its supporting twig, just below the petiole. And that&#8217;s exactly where she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/05\/wasp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wasp&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[567,284],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-hymenoptera","tag-palo-alto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}