{"id":2371,"date":"2012-07-24T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2012-07-24T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T13:42:15","slug":"a-birds-lunch-nmw2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/a-birds-lunch-nmw2012\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bird&#8217;s Lunch #NMW2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_2372\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=2372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2372\" title=\"Sphinx Moth - Ecuador\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sphinx-Moth-Ecuador20090503.jpg\" alt=\"Sphinx Moth - Ecuador\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sphinx-Moth-Ecuador20090503.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sphinx-Moth-Ecuador20090503-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Sphinx-Moth-Ecuador20090503-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sphinx Moth &#8211; Ecuador<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cryptic colouration of this sphinx moth likely protects it from bird predation during the day while it&#8217;s resting among the jungle foliage. Much as camo clothing won&#8217;t keep a person hidden in the middle of a parking lot, this cryptic colouration did diddly squat when an undergraduate student decided to release the moth off a second storey balcony in mid-afternoon while surrounded by Amazonian jungle! The ill-fated moth didn&#8217;t make it 20 feet before it was picked out of the air by a lucky fly catcher and dismantled in a poof of scales.<\/p>\n<p>At least the students learned a little lesson on how not to release insects&#8230;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptic colouration of this sphinx moth likely protects it from bird predation during the day while it&#8217;s resting among the jungle foliage. Much as camo clothing won&#8217;t keep a person hidden in the middle of a parking lot, this cryptic colouration did diddly squat when an undergraduate student decided to release the moth off <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/a-birds-lunch-nmw2012\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,23,415],"tags":[419,159,65,250,421,420],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-insects","category-national-moth-week","tag-anecdote","tag-ecuador","tag-lepidoptera","tag-moth","tag-predation","tag-sphingidae","category-75-id","category-23-id","category-415-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}