{"id":1692,"date":"2025-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:43:57","slug":"a-flower-beetle-in-our-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/a-flower-beetle-in-our-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"A flower beetle in our backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1572\" style=\"width:389px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Z8A_0011-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mordella<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>On a cloudy morning of 22 November 2024, I spotted a flower beetle of the genius <em>Mordella<\/em>. I am unable to identify the specific species of this beetle. The iNaturalist Seek mobile app was only able identify the genius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time I have seen this beetle. It disappeared the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The photograph was taken with the Nikon Z 105mm macro lens with a Roynox DCR-250 and a flash diffused by a newly acquired Cynustech diffuser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nik<em>on Z8, NIKKOR Z MC 105mm f\/2.8 VR S<\/em><\/em>, Rayox DCR-250, Nikon SB-910, Cynustech Diffuser<em><em>\u00a0@ 1\/200s f\/22\u00a0<\/em>ISO<\/em>400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cloudy morning of 22 November 2024, I spotted a flower beetle of the genius Mordella. I am unable to identify the specific species of this beetle. The iNaturalist Seek mobile app was only able identify the genius. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/a-flower-beetle-in-our-backyard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27,24],"tags":[213,214,47,215,17,211,16,212,36,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yeo.id.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}