{"id":4452,"date":"2018-06-28T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2018-06-28T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T22:08:29","slug":"30-days-wild-2018-day-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/30-days-wild-2018-day-28\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Days Wild 2018 \u2013 Day 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When leaving work tonight I found this cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) in the road.&nbsp; I have never seen one before but managed to identify it from images I have seen on Twitter.&nbsp; I learn a lot of plants and insects from other peoples Tweets \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; I took a quick picture and then tried to move it, only to realise it was not moving at all and never would again.&nbsp; I picked it up off of the floor and brought it home.&nbsp; Normally we get such fleeting glances of insects as they fly by that I thought I would take the opportunity to have a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/30DaysWildJune2018_167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/30DaysWildJune2018_167.jpg 595w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/30DaysWildJune2018_167-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/30DaysWildJune2018_167-438x300.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cockchafer are common in the UK and are also know as the May-bug.&nbsp; They typically appear late April to early May and live for around 6 weeks.&nbsp; Eggs are laid around June &#8211; July, the grubs then feed on roots and tubers for about 3 years until they are about 4cm.&nbsp; They pupate and emerge as adults in spring.&nbsp; Their numbers decreased in the 20th century due to pesticide use but their numbers have been bouncing back since the 1980&#8217;s with the regulations of pesticide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When leaving work tonight I found this cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) in the road.&nbsp; I have never seen one before but managed to identify it from images I have seen on Twitter.&nbsp; I learn a lot of plants and insects from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/30-days-wild-2018-day-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[894,904],"tags":[463,552,982,983],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlbphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}