{"id":12435,"date":"2017-06-12T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12435"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:26:12","slug":"speyeria-cybele-cybele-great-spangled-fritillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12435","title":{"rendered":"<em>Speyeria cybele cybele<\/em> (Great Spangled Fritillary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12437\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12437\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Speyeria cybele cybele (Great Spangled Fritillary)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12437\" data-wp-pid=\"12437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170612_142658.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Speyeria cybele cybele<\/em> (Great Spangled Fritillary)<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I drove down to Lake Needwood on the way home today and stopped to take a few pictures. I followed a pair of fritillaries for a while and got a few half decent pictures. I also went after a great blue heron but wasn&#8217;t able to get anything worth while there. This is a great spangled fritillary and apparently there are at least 7 subspecies (and depending on who you ask, more than that). I naively assumed they were distinguished by variations in the patterns on their wings but apparently they are identified by distribution. Who knew? This was identified by the good people of BugGuide.net as subspecies <em>S. c. cybele<\/em>. Note: the red in the background is my car. I tried to get pictures without that but for this one, which turned out the best of the butterfly, it was unavoidable. Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove down to Lake Needwood on the way home today and stopped to take a few pictures. I followed a pair of fritillaries for a while and got a few half decent pictures. I also went after a great blue heron but wasn&#8217;t able to get anything worth while there. This is a great &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[96,97,73,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12439,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12435\/revisions\/12439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}