{"id":41144,"date":"2014-02-18T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/mothra.html"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:07:54","slug":"mothra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/mothra.html","title":{"rendered":"Mothra!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Very cool. I mean, there are a lot of birds who are smaller than this moth.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107288053386422665925'>Carlos Esteban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Atlas moths<\/b> are considered the largest moths in the world in terms of total wing surface area, reaching upwards of c. 400\u00a0cm2 (62\u00a0sq\u00a0in). Their wingspans are also amongst the largest, reaching over 25\u00a0cm (10\u00a0in).<br \/>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attacus_atlas\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attacus_atlas<\/a><br \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23biology\">#biology<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23entomology\">#entomology<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23bugseveryday\">#bugseveryday<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-vKXt3NM09xM\/UwKp8D1GL7I\/AAAAAAAAB8s\/P41Zyc9dlYw\/Huge-Atlas-moth-crawls.gif?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SMgrdJ3WmKr' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool. I mean, there are a lot of birds who are smaller than this moth. (h\/t +Yonatan Zunger) Reshared post from +Carlos Esteban Atlas moths are considered the largest moths in the world in terms of total wing surface area, reaching upwards of c. 400\u00a0cm2 (62\u00a0sq\u00a0in). Their wingspans are also amongst the largest, reaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/mothra.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mothra!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[562,564,563],"class_list":["post-41144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-biology","tag-bugseveryday","tag-entomology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":163,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/04\/spring_is_in_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":41144,"position":0},"title":"Spring is in the air","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jun-03 6:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Red, yellow, green lights flashing. 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