{"id":668,"date":"2010-12-23T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=668"},"modified":"2010-12-23T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:24:52","slug":"stinkbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/stinkbugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stinkbugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been something of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/27\/us\/27stinkbug.html\">stinkbug invasion<\/a> here in the mid-Atlantic this fall. We&#8217;ve had pretty small ones, though, compared to this honking monster that a friend in California encountered yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cjl-bug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cjl-bug-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cjl-bug\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the ones I&#8217;ve seen have mostly been on the Metro. I guess they&#8217;re commuters too. Like me.<\/p>\n<p>This California specimen, though, is a great wonder and mystery to me. We all agree he&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/360658\">Pentatomoidea<\/a>, right? But beyond that, who knows? He&#8217;s bigger and much narrower than <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/9806\">Halyomorpha halys<\/a>, our brown marmorated stink bug. He&#8217;s narrow like <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/34982\">Mecidea major<\/a>, the narrow stink bug. But, then again, he&#8217;s got more of the coloring of Halymorpha than Mecidea.<\/p>\n<p>What is he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been something of a stinkbug invasion here in the mid-Atlantic this fall. We&#8217;ve had pretty small ones, though, compared to this honking monster that a friend in California encountered yesterday. &nbsp; For some reason, the ones I&#8217;ve seen have mostly been on the Metro. I guess they&#8217;re commuters too. Like me. This California specimen, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/stinkbugs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stinkbugs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}