{"id":19,"date":"2006-11-04T02:18:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-07-07T07:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T06:30:48","slug":"praying-mantis-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis Attack!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/November\/DSC03374.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Today we had a surprise guest in our yard, a miniature praying mantis. I&#8217;ve always been fond of them, maybe because of the never drawn Gary Larson comic with a mantis coming into a singles bar with his decapitated head under an arm that states &#8222;women&#8220;. Melli got some good macro shots with her cam. Most likely it is the invasive South African species <em>Miomantis caffra<\/em>, and not New Zealand&#8217;s own <em>Orthodera novaezealandiae<\/em>. Lets hope for the little critter that it won&#8217;t get eaten by an invasive thrush, sparrow or starling.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/November\/DSC03386.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hingston.eu\/nzBlog\/Pictures\/November\/DSC03387.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we had a surprise guest in our yard, a miniature praying mantis. I&#8217;ve always been fond of them, maybe because of the never drawn Gary Larson comic with a mantis coming into a singles bar with his decapitated head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/?p=19\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-nature","category-zoology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nz.hingston.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}