{"id":3720,"date":"2012-08-27T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/wp\/2012\/08\/27\/reader-photos-jeffrey-higgins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-14T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T21:44:52","slug":"reader-photos-jeffrey-higgins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/2012\/08\/27\/reader-photos-jeffrey-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Photos &#8211; Jeffrey Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jeffrey Higgins\u00a0has enjoyed the same 2 mile stretch of the Thames River in London, Ontario for ~50 years. He traded his fishing rod for a camera about 5 years ago to celebrates\u00a0the natural world, and enjoys sharing his photos on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norththamesnature.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/North-Thames-Nature\/460307293982202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>. Jeffrey submitted the following photos and asked for suggestions about the species ID. If you have a suggestion, please let Jeffrey know in the comments.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<div>I was out for a walk in the field, but actually stepping into the woods to photograph spiders, when I noticed a tiny critter on my chest. It was crawling up my camera strap and getting closer to my face so I put down the camera and coaxed the critter onto a stick. This caterpillar was very interesting. It had a small floating body hovering over it&rsquo;s head that seemed more like a pet on a leash than part of the caterpillar itself. I observed this caterpillar for several minutes and took a good number of photos.<\/div>\n<div>I am writing to you in the hope that someone there can identify this bug for me and provide some insight about this strange thing attached to it&rsquo;s head. It was not merely bobbing about on a pair of hairs but rather, it was raised, lowered, and twisted about in a seemingly voluntary fashion. So cool!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_449\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.com\/?attachment_id=449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-449\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-449\" title=\"1697-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1697-sm.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"Caterpillar by Jeffrey Higgins\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jeffrey Higgins (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_451\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1716-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"1716-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1716-sm.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Photo by Jeffrey Higgins\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jeffrey Higgins (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_450\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1703-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-450\" title=\"1703-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1703-sm.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Photo by Jeffrey Higgins\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jeffrey Higgins (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_452\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1717-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-452\" title=\"1717-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/escsecblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/1717-sm.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Photo by Jeffrey Higgins\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jeffrey Higgins (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Higgins\u00a0has enjoyed the same 2 mile stretch of the Thames River in London, Ontario for ~50 years. He traded his fishing rod for a camera about 5 years ago to celebrates\u00a0the natural world, and enjoys sharing his photos on his website and on Facebook. Jeffrey submitted the following photos and asked for suggestions about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753,473],"tags":[828,829,830,831],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateursnaturalists-fr","category-blog-fr","tag-butterfly-fr","tag-id-request-fr","tag-lepidoptera-fr","tag-moth-fr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esc-sec.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}