{"id":371,"date":"2026-09-18T19:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2026-09-18T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T19:24:54","slug":"waved-sphinx-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Waved Sphinx Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s rare to see one of these during the day, and I almost didn&#8217;t. This guy was perfectly camouflaged, hanging on to the bottom of the weathered gate to my raised vegetable beds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-373\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500104075600517;width:576px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-432x576.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-169x225.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-478x637.jpeg 478w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0494-scaled-1.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got down to eye-level to spend some time with him. He was very still, and seemed to be watching me watch him. I took a few photos and left him in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-768x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-374\" style=\"width:579px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-768x1024-1.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-225x300-1.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-432x576-1.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-1152x1536-1.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-1536x2048-1.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-169x225-1.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-478x637-1.jpeg 478w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0490-2-scaled-1.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare to see one of these during the day, and I almost didn&#8217;t. This guy was perfectly camouflaged, hanging on to the bottom of the weathered gate to my raised vegetable beds. I got down to eye-level to spend some time with him. He was very still, and seemed to be watching me watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}