{"id":12621,"date":"2017-07-09T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12621"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:28:20","slug":"tiger-swallowtail-papilio-glaucus-on-buddleia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12621","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Swallowtail (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) on Buddleia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12623\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12623\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Swallowtail (&lt;em&gt;Papilio glaucus&lt;\/em&gt;) on Buddleia\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12623\" data-wp-pid=\"12623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_20170709_143741.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiger Swallowtail (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) on Buddleia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once the buddleia comes into bloom, which has happened in the last week or so, it&#8217;s a rare day when there isn&#8217;t at least one tiger swallowtail (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) fluttering around the yard. They aren&#8217;t anywhere as near as common and the many skippers (family Hesperiidae) that we have by the dozens or even as the cabbage whites (<em>Pieris rapae<\/em>), but pretty common. And of course they are much more striking. I particularly like then when the sun is on them or even shining through them and they are against a clear, blue afternoon sky, as this one is. The color on the upper side of the hindwings identifies this as a female, just in the act of taking off from the flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the buddleia comes into bloom, which has happened in the last week or so, it&#8217;s a rare day when there isn&#8217;t at least one tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) fluttering around the yard. They aren&#8217;t anywhere as near as common and the many skippers (family Hesperiidae) that we have by the dozens or even as &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12621\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621"}],"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=12621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12626,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12621\/revisions\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}