{"id":631,"date":"2008-06-19T07:28:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/06\/19\/what-the-heck-ask-eric-wetzel\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T07:28:18","slug":"what-the-heck-ask-eric-wetzel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/06\/19\/what-the-heck-ask-eric-wetzel\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Heck? Ask Eric Wetzel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I rounded the corner, key in hand, to open the front door to Hays Center yesterday. \u2020At first thought, I wondered how a leaf stuck in that position. \u2020As I closed in, I could see it wasn’t a leaf at all – it was a “bug”.<\/p>\n

What the heck?<\/p>\n

Take a picture and ship the photo to the Bio department, I thought. They’ll know. It was only minutes before I got an explanation from Professor Eric Wetzel. Eric told me:<\/p>\n

“This beautiful critter is a luna moth, which is in a group of moths called the giant silkworm moths. Larvae are greenish and pretty big, usually feeding on walnut or hickory. In case you’re curious, this looks to be a male, which you can tell by the really big, feathery antennae (which they use to catch molecules of pheromone put out by females to attract the males). Very cool.”<\/em><\/p>\n

I think it’s very cool that Eric took the time to not only give me a name but explain it as well.<\/p>\n

Only at Wabash…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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