{"id":1000827,"date":"2007-08-27T06:25:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T11:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/08\/27\/small-milkweed-bug\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:33:09","slug":"small-milkweed-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/08\/27\/small-milkweed-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Milkweed Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/smallmilkweedbug2.JPG' alt='Black and red-orange true bug' width='576' height='482' \/><br \/>\nSmall Milkweed Bug &#8211; <i>Lygaeus turcicus<\/i><br \/>\nBrooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007-08-25<br \/>\nThanks to John and Jane Balaban for the ID.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In my limited experience these seem more skittish and afraid of the camera than its cousin the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/08\/25\/large-milkweed-bug\/\">Large Milkweed Bug<\/a> is. Here&#8217;s another one that was trying to hide from me at Jamaica Bay yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/smallmilkweedbug1.JPG' alt='Red and black true bug on a leaf' width='624' height='534' \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite the names, these two look the same size to me. Any difference you see here is just an effect of how much I cropped and shrunk each picture, not a difference in the bugs themselves. The difference in pattern and color is obvious, but not size.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Milkweed Bug &#8211; Lygaeus turcicus Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2007-08-25 Thanks to John and Jane Balaban for the ID.<\/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":[410,65],"class_list":["post-1000827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-bugs","tag-flash","tag-true-bug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000827","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=1000827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}