{"id":1434,"date":"2013-10-19T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2013-10-19T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T16:16:11","slug":"harlequin-ladybirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin ladybirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a few years since harlequin ladybirds arrived in Yorkshire and they are now a common sight in the autumn as groups of adults enter houses in search of places to overwinter. This habit is the reason why the Americans refer to them as &#8216;halloween&#8217; bugs. This year, hundreds of the larvae can be seen on the trunks of trees in the grounds of Ackworth School. The orange-and-black larvae find a suitable spot and settle down to change into a chrysalis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1435\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1435\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1435\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1435\" alt=\"Harlequins\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harlequins-1-small.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harlequins-1-small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harlequins-1-small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Harlequins-1-small-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harlequins<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a few years since harlequin ladybirds arrived in Yorkshire and they are now a common sight in the autumn as groups of adults enter houses in search of places to overwinter. This habit is the reason why the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}