{"id":5929,"date":"2014-03-21T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2014-03-26T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T11:44:48","slug":"wasp-waisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/wasp-waisted\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasp Waisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140321-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5871\" alt=\"20140321 015\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140321-015-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140321-015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140321-015.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I was taking a photo of the water level at the dam I saw a number of large wasps flying onto the mud at the edge of the water. \u00a0Luckily the zoom lens meant I didn&#8217;t have to get too close, and I was amazed to see how tiny its waist was. \u00a0 Then I realised that probably meant that it was able to move its stinging abdomen in any direction which made me a little uncomfortable. \u00a0According to the CSIRO these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozanimals.com\/Insect\/Mud-Dauber-Wasp\/Sceliphron\/sp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mud Dauber Wasps<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csiro.au\/Outcomes\/Environment\/Biodiversity\/MudWasps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">harmless<\/a>, but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mud_dauber\" target=\"_blank\">wikipedia<\/a> almost 200 people died in an air crash after wasps built their nests in the pitot tubes on the plane which are supposed to give feedback on speed. \u00a0We had a similar experience when the diesel wouldn&#8217;t come out of the pump when we were trying to fill the tractor &#8211; Brad found a wasp nest &#8211; complete with paralysed spiders in the tube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was taking a photo of the water level at the dam I saw a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140321-015.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}