{"id":12657,"date":"2020-06-25T18:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=12657"},"modified":"2020-06-25T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:38:36","slug":"dusk-rat-fig-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2020\/06\/25\/dusk-rat-fig-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusk Rat and Fig Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new backyard is beginning to attract a wider variety of wildlife, including more birds, a bevy of possums, tons of interesting insects, and miscellaneous other critters.  We&#8217;ve had roof rats around for a while (thankfully not in our roof since <a href=\"\/journal\/2017\/05\/01\/victory\/\">the epic final battle<\/a>), and while people hear &#8220;rat&#8221; and immediately go &#8220;eww&#8221;, ours are pretty cute.  Two new arrivals have started hanging out on our back wall each night before sunset, and we&#8217;ve named them both &#8220;Dusk Rat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2020-06-A\/1073-culver-city-roof-rat.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" alt=\"Dusk Rat\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">As long as he stays out of our attic, Dusk Rat will be our new friend.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2020-06-A\/1050-culver-city-fig-beetle.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" alt=\"Fig Beetle\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Fig beetle on the Jones Mallow.  They are incredibly pretty when on land, and incredibly terrifying when in the air.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new backyard is beginning to attract a wider variety of wildlife, including more birds, a bevy of possums, tons of interesting insects, and miscellaneous other critters. We&#8217;ve had roof rats around for a while (thankfully not in our roof since the epic final battle), and while people hear &#8220;rat&#8221; and immediately go &#8220;eww&#8221;, ours &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2020\/06\/25\/dusk-rat-fig-beetle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dusk Rat and Fig Beetle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12663,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}