{"id":1560,"date":"2014-03-13T21:51:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2014-03-13T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:03:11","slug":"1560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1560","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin ladybirds awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several people have asked me about ladybirds in the past week because harlequin ladybirds that found shelter in buildings in the autumn have been brought out of hibernation by the recent warm weather. I found these harlequins in their natural habitat, on a mature tree. They were clustering beneath a loose piece of bark on a sycamore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1561\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1561\" alt=\"Harlequin ladybirds\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HARLQUIN.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HARLQUIN.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HARLQUIN-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HARLQUIN-382x300.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The harlequin ladybird (<em>Harmonia axyridis<\/em>) is also known as the multi-coloured Asian ladybird and the Halloween ladybird. It has a <em>very<\/em> variable appearance, which can make it difficult to tell apart from our native ladybirds. For more information go to\u00a0<a title=\"More about harlequin ladybirds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harlequin-survey.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.harlequin-survey.org <\/a>and you can log your\u00a0ladybird sightings at\u00a0<a title=\"Ladybird surveys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ladybird-survey.org\/\">www.ladybird-survey.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several people have asked me about ladybirds in the past week because harlequin ladybirds that found shelter in buildings in the autumn have been brought out of hibernation by the recent warm weather. I found these harlequins in their natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1560\">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":[56,8,57,27],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}