{"id":1000933,"date":"2007-10-23T04:45:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/23\/wasp-week-day-2-potter-wasp\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T15:42:21","slug":"wasp-week-day-2-potter-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/10\/23\/wasp-week-day-2-potter-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp Week Day 2: Potter Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eumenesfraternus3.JPG' alt='Black and white wasp' width='640' height='463' \/><br \/>\n<i>Eumenes Fraternus<\/i><br \/>\nFort Tilden, Queens, 2007-09-23<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wasp is a member of the Potter Wasp family, which are named after the pot-like mud nests they construct. There are actually several species of Potter Wasps that don&#8217;t have individual English common names, probably because they don&#8217;t really bother most people and don&#8217;t stand out like yellowjackets. Still, these are decent sized wasps (1.5 to 2 cm from head to tail) that are often seen visiting flowers in gardens. As both a pollinator and a caterpillar eater, this wasp is highly beneficial to gardeners.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eumenesfraternus.JPG' alt='Eumenes Fraternus wasp on yellow flowers, plus two other insects' width='640' height='590' \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/32193\">BugGuide article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potter_wasp\">Wikipedia article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirrusimage.com\/bees_wasps_eumenes.htm\">Cirrus Digital Imaging Pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eumenes Fraternus Fort Tilden, Queens, 2007-09-23 Today&#8217;s wasp is a member of the Potter Wasp family, which are named after the pot-like mud nests they construct. There are actually several species of Potter Wasps that don&#8217;t have individual English common names, probably because they don&#8217;t really bother most people and don&#8217;t stand out like yellowjackets. [&hellip;]<\/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-1000933","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\/1000933","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=1000933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}