{"id":123541,"date":"2025-10-15T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:53:09","slug":"eyes-in-the-moss-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123541\/","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":123327,"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-123541","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\/123541","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=123541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}