{"id":36,"date":"2009-02-11T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitenet.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/11\/moths-on-the-web-news-update\/"},"modified":"2017-04-18T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:25:39","slug":"moths-on-the-web-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/2009\/02\/11\/moths-on-the-web-news-update\/","title":{"rendered":"moths on the web &#8211; news update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positioned somewhere on the sublime\u2013ridiculous scale &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moths provide inspiration for green energy: the structure of moths&#8217; eyes enables them to &#8216;harvest&#8217; light extremely efficiently, and this is <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/news\/37711\">providing a model for constructing more effective solar cells<br \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>This is weird and possibly sinister, but US Defense researchers are trying to produce living insects with electronic implants so that they be controlled and directed &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/feb09\/7747\">Cyborg moths<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/News\/NationalNews\/Man-finds-moth-in-pre-washed-pre-packed-salad\/tabid\/423\/articleID\/90721\/cat\/64\/Default.aspx\">Man finds moth in pre-washed, pre-packed salad<\/a> shocker (well, at least it was a clean moth &#8211; what would be most appropriate in a salad, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Mamestra brassicae<\/span>?, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Cucullia lactucae<\/span>?)<\/li>\n<li>Is it a batman, is it a superman, no, it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcuc.info\/batman\/killer-moth-loose-photos\/\">Killer Moth<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not being too familiar with Killer Moth I consulted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poeghostal.com\/2009\/02\/killer-moth-dc-universe-classics.html\">this review<\/a>, &#8220;What is there to say about Killer Moth? He\u2019s probably second only to Kite-Man as Batman\u2019s goofiest foe &#8230; Killer Moth is a fairly standard figure, but his wings push his rating up a little higher.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positioned somewhere on the sublime\u2013ridiculous scale &#8230; Moths provide inspiration for green energy: the structure of moths&#8217; eyes enables them to &#8216;harvest&#8217; light extremely efficiently, and this is providing a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/2009\/02\/11\/moths-on-the-web-news-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;moths on the web &#8211; news update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,34,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lepidoptera","category-moths","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitenet.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}