{"id":80381,"date":"2025-10-17T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/80381\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:53:10","slug":"suspended-animation-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/80381\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Animation | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minghui Yuan&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Minghui Yuan (China) carefully illustrates the architectural detail of a hairy moth cocoon.<\/p>\n<p>Minghui saw many cocoons that day in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n<p>He chose one suspended against the bright sky to highlight its finer features.<\/p>\n<p>The moth pupa hung mid-air within its finely constructed cocoon, seemingly defying gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The caterpillars graze on lichens, mosses and algae that coat tree trunks.<\/p>\n<p>Their hairs ward off predators. When it\u2019s time to pupate, the caterpillars chew them off and recycle them as anti-predator building material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minghui Yuan&#8217;s Image Minghui Yuan (China) carefully illustrates the architectural detail of a hairy moth cocoon. Minghui saw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,15563,141,386,53321,53320,53318,53319,53317],"class_list":["post-80381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}