{"id":341,"date":"2018-07-02T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/?p=341"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:17:38","slug":"sabre-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Sabre Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This huge wasp is the sabre wasp an ichneumon wasp, you can read more about them here l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buglife.org.uk\/bugs-and-habitats\/the-sabre-wasp\">https:\/\/www.buglife.org.uk\/bugs-and-habitats\/the-sabre-wasp\ufeff<\/a><br\/>the long &#8220;sting&#8221; is actually the ovipositor (egg laying tube) which doubles as a drill to deposit the eggs in larvae that live beep in wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery alignnone columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\t<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n\t\t<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sabre-wasp-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sabre-wasp-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"395\" data-link=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/?attachment_id=395\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>Rhyssa persuasoria, depositing eggs<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n\t\t<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sabre-wasp2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sabre-wasp2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"394\" data-link=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/?attachment_id=394\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>Rhyssa persuasoria<\/figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/davethom.net\/?p=341\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insects","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davethom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}