{"id":592,"date":"2003-06-16T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T10:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/592"},"modified":"2003-06-16T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T10:03:49","slug":"the-aggies-figure-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/592","title":{"rendered":"The Aggies figure it out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent the picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addlepated.net\/archives\/001655.html#001655\">the mystery bug<\/a> to Dr. John A. Jackman, a professor of Entomology at Texas A&#038;M.  He emailed me back today to say:<\/p>\n<p><i>That is an adult male of a glow-worm.  The family is Phengodidae and the genus is Phengodes.<br \/>\nThe females are wingless, luminescent and look like larvae rather than a beetle.<br \/>\nThe larvae are predators on other arthropods.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness that&#8217;s cleared up!  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/insects.tamu.edu\/images\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/coleoptera\/phengodidae\/phengodes_sp_adult_dorsal_m_01.jpg\">another picture of one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent the picture of the mystery bug to Dr. John A. Jackman, a professor of Entomology at Texas A&#038;M. He emailed me back today to say: That is an adult male of a glow-worm. The family is Phengodidae and the genus is Phengodes. The females are wingless, luminescent and look like larvae rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}