{"id":8787,"date":"2024-07-02T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:50:18","slug":"thick-kneed-flower-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/02\/thick-kneed-flower-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"Thick-kneed Flower Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240702_161811-GT-Thick-Kneed-Flower-Beetle-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240702_161811-GT-Thick-Kneed-Flower-Beetle-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240702_161811-GT-Thick-Kneed-Flower-Beetle-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240702_161811-GT-Thick-Kneed-Flower-Beetle-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240702_161811-GT-Thick-Kneed-Flower-Beetle-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">O<em>edemera nobilis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This beautiful iridescent metallic green insect is the male thick-kneed flower beetle &#8212; the female is less colourful, and doesn&#8217;t have the swollen femurs. All the coloration is structural, created by microscopic ridges of the cuticle, the right size to interfere with visible light. The insect&#8217;s Latin name is <em>Oedemera nobilis<\/em>, the &#8220;noble swollen-parted&#8221; (yes, like Oedema, swelling), presumably describing the thick &#8220;knees&#8221; and the insect&#8217;s handsome appearance.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This beautiful iridescent metallic green insect is the male thick-kneed flower beetle &#8212; the female is less colourful, and doesn&#8217;t have the swollen femurs. All the coloration is structural, created by microscopic ridges of the cuticle, the right size to interfere with visible light. The insect&#8217;s Latin name is Oedemera nobilis, the &#8220;noble swollen-parted&#8221; (yes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/02\/thick-kneed-flower-beetle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thick-kneed Flower Beetle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8789,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions\/8789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}