{"id":50929,"date":"2015-08-18T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=50929"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:21:25","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-mistaken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/08\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-mistaken-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: Mistaken Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\/\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p>Of all the insects that I&#8217;ve photographed at the Garden, the hummingbird clearwing moth is easily the most challenging to capture. At first glance it resembles a shrimp with translucent wings\u2014each one bordered in red\u2014making it a real stand-out among the wildlife that calls NYBG home. The Home Gardening Center is one of the best spots to see these insects, which are often mistaken for hummingbirds.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"50930\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/08\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-mistaken-identity\/attachment\/mec-clearwing-moth\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,923\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SX50 HS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1377426521&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;37.26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hummingbird clearwing moth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth-300x231.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth-1024x788.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-50930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth-1024x788.jpg\" alt=\"Hummingbird clearwing moth\" width=\"570\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A hummingbird clearwing moth (<i>Hemaris thysbe<\/i>) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/home-gardening\/index.php\">Home Gardening Center<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case of mistaken identity might lead you to believe that this unique insect is actually a hummingbird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":50930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[4669,4612,2537,1360,4640,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/MEC-clearwing-moth.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dfr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50931,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50929\/revisions\/50931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}