{"id":3304,"date":"2012-07-24T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2012-07-24T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T01:13:10","slug":"luna-moth-by-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2012\/luna-moth-by-the-lake","title":{"rendered":"Luna Moth by the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3305 alignnone\" title=\"luna-moth-2012\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this pretty visitor clinging to shoreline foliage this afternoon. She looked pretty spent but might of just been resting before a moonlit sojourn yet to come.\u00a0Luna Moths (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcps.edu\/islandcreekes\/ecology\/luna_moth.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Actias luna<\/a>)\u00a0<\/em>live only to mate, lay eggs and die. They can&#8217;t even eat or drink since they don&#8217;t have mouths!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3304 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" src=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1-150x99.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1-377x250.jpg 377w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-2-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-2-333x250.jpg 333w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-3-150x112.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-3-333x250.jpg 333w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/luna-moth-2012-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/2010\/07\/nocturnal-beauty-luna-moth\/\">See my 2010 post for additional pictures&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this pretty visitor clinging to shoreline foliage this afternoon. She looked pretty spent but might of just been resting before a moonlit sojourn yet to come.\u00a0Luna Moths (Actias luna)\u00a0live only to mate, lay eggs and die. They can&#8217;t even eat or drink since they don&#8217;t have mouths! See my 2010 post for additional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2012\/luna-moth-by-the-lake\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Luna Moth by the Lake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}