{"id":31434,"date":"2023-08-16T18:43:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T16:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31434"},"modified":"2023-08-16T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T16:48:30","slug":"impaled-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31434","title":{"rendered":"Impaled moth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, I noticed a small micromoth flapping its wings vigorously on a spear thistle (veitistel) in the garden. It had somehow got caught on one of the spears as you can see in the video and pictures that follow. It&#8217;s probably the ground moss grey \/ barkmosemott (<em>Eudonia<\/em> <em>truncicolella). <\/em>Luckily for it,it shares its habitat with a compassionate and observant individual of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em> and was soon winging its way to its next destination! The larvae of this species feed on mosses!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-31434-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Impaled_moth.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Impaled_moth.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Impaled_moth.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31436 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144019.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144019-300x294.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144019-768x754.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144019-640x628.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31437 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31438 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018a.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018a-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018a-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8144018a-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noticed a small micromoth flapping its wings vigorously on a spear thistle (veitistel) in the garden. It had somehow got caught on one of the spears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[4909,4910,4908,239,4907,4905,4906],"class_list":["post-31434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterflies-and-moths","tag-barkmosemott","tag-eudonia-truncicolella","tag-ground-moss-grey","tag-moth","tag-moth-rescue","tag-spear-thistle","tag-veitistel"],"views":1733,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31440,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions\/31440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}