{"id":1000690,"date":"2007-06-18T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T10:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/06\/18\/eyee-click-beetle\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:03:57","slug":"eyee-click-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/06\/18\/eyee-click-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyed Click Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/clickbeetle.JPG' alt='Black and white beetle with large &quot;eyes&quot;' width='640' height='541' \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Alaus oculatus<\/i>, Negri-Nepote-Leni Preserve, Somerset County, New Jersey, 2007-06-17<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t always ID beetles down to the species level with the naked eye, but this one&#8217;s very distinctive, and we had them around my house in Metairie, Louisiana when I was growing up. <\/p>\n<p>The big &#8220;eyes&#8221; aren&#8217;t really eyes, just spots on its hinds parts. Likely they either make predators think this beetle&#8217;s bigger than it is, or get them to attack the wrong end.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaus oculatus, Negri-Nepote-Leni Preserve, Somerset County, New Jersey, 2007-06-17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,41],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-bugs","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}