{"id":195,"date":"2012-02-16T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/195-366-days-of-2012-day-47-little-creature-part-ii.html"},"modified":"2012-02-19T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T09:02:07","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-47-little-creature-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/195-366-days-of-2012-day-47-little-creature-part-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 47 &#8211; Little Creature Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:417 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"483\" height=\"720\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_8036.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s amazing to discover a brand new creature I&#8217;ve never met before and then even more amazing to be able to identify it and learn something about it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWe first met <a href=\"\/serendipity\/archives\/190-366-Days-of-2012,-Day-40-Little-Creature.html\" title=\"Day 40, Little Creature\">little creature<\/a> back on day 40 when I found a strange looking pupa on a leaf in our garden. Back then she was this strange looking bug and I had no clue what she was.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nToday we were looking at little creature through the microscope I noticed some wriggling going on inside the pupal casing. I guessed it would not be long until we found out who she was and I had hoped to witness her emergence. Unfortunately a few hours went by while I was preoccupied and she was already out when I looked again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo here she is in all her glory, a Yellow Shouldered Ladybird, Apolinus lividigaster (synonym Scymnodes lividigaster) of FAMILY COCCINELLIDAE sitting atop her now discarded pupal casing.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI found the following website a very useful references and where I made the photo identification <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbaneinsects.com\/brisbane_ladybirds\/YellowEyes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.brisbaneinsects.com\/brisbane_ladybirds\/YellowEyes.htm<\/a> <br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis macro photo is my first try at using a 2x teleconverter with my 100mm macro lens rather than extension tubes. I think it works well! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 47 &#8211; Little Creature Part II&#8217;. 3.2 secs at 200mm (macro) f\/16, ISO 200 + Fill Flash<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to discover a brand new creature I&#8217;ve never met before and then even more amazing to be able to identify it and learn something about it. We first met little creature back on day 40 when I found a strange looking pupa on a leaf in our garden. Back then she was this &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 47 &#8211; Little Creature Part II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/195-366-days-of-2012-day-47-little-creature-part-ii.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 47 &#8211; Little Creature Part II\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}