{"id":100,"date":"2005-07-05T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.callblog.net\/?p=100"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:39:37","slug":"dobsonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/post\/dobsonfly","title":{"rendered":"Dobsonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my apartment was visted by a mature, female <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsthatbug.com\/dobs.html\">dobsonfly<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsthatbug.com\">whatsthatbug.com<\/a>].   Being my first encounter with the humungous, vicious-looking insect, I was scared crapless and shuffled past it as quickly and quietly as possible as I carried <acronym title=\"Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus\">SCUBA<\/acronym> equipment and birthday presents into the building.<\/p>\n<p>Upon recounting my horror story of being accosted by giant insects my cube neighbor instantly identified the creature.  Apparently they&#8217;re harmless (to humans anyway).  I&#8217;m just glad it wasn&#8217;t a male, if I had seen the mandibles on one of those, I would&#8217;ve  gotten in my car and headed back to P-town (see pictures by following the link above, if you haven&#8217;t already). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my apartment was visted by a mature, female dobsonfly [whatsthatbug.com]. Being my first encounter with the humungous, vicious-looking insect, I was scared crapless and shuffled past it as quickly and quietly as possible as I carried SCUBA equipment and birthday presents into the building. Upon recounting my horror story of being accosted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/callblog.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}