{"id":8421,"date":"2012-02-02T10:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=8421"},"modified":"2015-06-08T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T17:41:28","slug":"insect-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8421","title":{"rendered":"Insect Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Valentine\u2019s Day not far away, the word on many a mind is love.  We all know what can happen when two people meet in our world, but what about the world of\u2026insects?  <\/p>\n<p>Have you ever stumbled across a pair of butterflies linked together and attempting to fly or a pair of walking sticks intertwined, and wondered what these curious displays are about?<\/p>\n<p>Survey of the Color Forms of the Southern Twostriped Walkingstick (Phasmatodea: Areolatae: Pseudophasmatidae: Pseudophasmatinae: Anisomorphini), With Notes on Its Range, Habitats, and Behaviors by OV Conle, FH Hennemann, and AT Dossey is an interesting source for a glimpse into the walkingstick\u2019s elusive search for a mate hidden alone or in a cluster of walkingsticks amid sandy grounds, tree trunks, and palmetto fronds. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/walkingstickssmall.jpg\" alt=\"Walking Sticks (Insects)\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>For a full-text view of this and other fascinating articles about the \u201clove lives\u201d of the insect world, search <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.bioone.org\/\" title=\"BioOne\" target=\"_blank\">BioOne<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" alt=\"UW-W users only\" src=\"http:\/\/uww.edu\/images\/library\/uwwonly.gif\" \/>. <\/p>\n<p>By Christine Fary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Valentine\u2019s Day not far away, the word on many a mind is love.  We all know what happens when boy meets girl in our world, but what about the world of\u2026insects?   <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/8421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,38],"tags":[119,228],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-resource","category-online-the-library","tag-databases","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions\/16236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}