{"id":900,"date":"2013-08-10T20:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:12:31","slug":"western-conifer-seed-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/western-conifer-seed-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Conifer Seed Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my window yesterday evening and a bug came flying in.  With the loud drone of its wings, I initially thought it was a wasp and backed away.  But it turned out to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/ento.psu.edu\/extension\/factsheets\/western-conifer-seedbug\">western conifer seed bug<\/a> (<i>Leptoglossus occidentalis<\/i>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_901\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/conifer_seed_bug.jpg\" alt=\"Western conifer seed bug\" width=\"800\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-901\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/conifer_seed_bug.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/conifer_seed_bug-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Western conifer seed bug<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This bug started out in the West (hence its name), but has since <a href=\"http:\/\/bugeric.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/true-bug-tuesday-exporting-western.html\">spread to the eastern U.S. and even Europe<\/a>.  They love to find their way into homes in the spring and fall.  Apparently this bug didn&#8217;t get the memo: it&#8217;s still summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my window yesterday evening and a bug came flying in. With the loud drone of its wings, I initially thought it was a wasp and backed away. But it turned out to be a western conifer seed bug &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/western-conifer-seed-bug\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[190,280,86,72,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}