{"id":570,"date":"2010-06-21T21:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-06-21T21:12:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T20:12:27","slug":"the-small-ermine-moth-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"The Small Ermine Moth (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=318\">Last year<\/a> I wrote about the &#8216;cobwebs&#8217; which appeared in the hedgerows during later May.  They are spun by the caterpillars of the Small Ermine Moth in order to protect them from becoming the tasty morsel a bird would enjoy!  Protected under the bird proof mesh they are able to strip the hedge of leaves before turning into a chrysalis and then a moth.  There are many sections of hedgerow with these &#8216;cobwebs&#8217; but here is the most dramatic I&#8217;ve spotted this year.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.loades.net\/megabusblog\/images\/uploads\/hedge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about the &#8216;cobwebs&#8217; which appeared in the hedgerows during later May. They are spun by the caterpillars of the Small Ermine Moth in order to protect them from becoming the tasty morsel a bird would enjoy! Protected under the bird proof mesh they are able to strip the hedge of leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}