{"id":79891,"date":"2025-10-15T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/79891\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:35:06","slug":"eyes-in-the-moss-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/79891\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes in the Moss | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jithesh Pai&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Jithesh Pai (India) discovers three tiger beetle larvae waiting in ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Jithesh was watching the mossy wall in his family\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d seen an adult female tiger beetle push its eggs into the loose soil between the bricks. So he started monitoring the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, tiny, armoured larval heads began to appear in the holes.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure every detail was sharp, Jithesh used a technique called focus stacking.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger beetle larvae have large eyes alert to the slightest movement and open wide, needle-sharp mandibles.<\/p>\n<p>They lurk in their burrows, ready to seize whatever stumbles within lunging distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jithesh Pai&#8217;s Image Jithesh Pai (India) discovers three tiger beetle larvae waiting in ambush. Jithesh was watching the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,5924,111,139,69,61399,61398,61396,61397,61395],"class_list":["post-79891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nature-photography","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}