{"id":2302,"date":"2009-11-30T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/adult-migratory-locust\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T02:10:15","slug":"adult-migratory-locust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/adult-migratory-locust\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Migratory Locust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/locust.jpg' title='locust.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/locust.thumbnail.jpg' alt='locust.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>I looked out the front door this morning and I saw this large bug just sitting on the sidewalk sunning itself. I called to Verna to bring her camera. When she did, the bug patiently posed for her to take several shots, including this one (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n<p>I did not know exactly what kind of a bug was sunning on our walkway (it was still there when we closed the front door). I went into the house and looked up &#8216;locust&#8217; using an image search. I quickly found one that looked a lot like our bug and went to the website that had the picture. The bug was an adult migratory locust according to an Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpi.qld.gov.au\/26_7898.htm\">insect pest photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This guy was a long way from Australia . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked out the front door this morning and I saw this large bug just sitting on the sidewalk sunning itself. I called to Verna to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}