{"id":123486,"date":"2025-10-15T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123486\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:17:10","slug":"suspended-animation-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123486\/","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":123487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[18,19,17,29690,133,461,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-nature-photography","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife","14":"tag-wildlife-competition","15":"tag-wildlife-images","16":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","17":"tag-wildphoto","18":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}