{"id":12957,"date":"2017-09-17T15:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:44:42","slug":"skipper-on-rudbekia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12957","title":{"rendered":"Skipper on <em>Rudbekia<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12959\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12959\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Skipper on Rudbekia\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12959\" data-wp-pid=\"12959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_20170917_146726.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skipper on <em>Rudbekia<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The skippers are a constant source of attraction pretty much all summer and into the fall in our yard. They may have their favorites but they are generally everywhere, from the black-eye Susans (<em>Rudbekia<\/em>) as seen here, to the <em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em>, the mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>), and the <em>Buddleia<\/em>. They are everywhere and it pretty huge numbers. If you walk along the edge of the black-eyed Susans, they fly off <em>en masse<\/em> and alight again, further along or behind you. It&#8217;s enjoyable just to watch them flitting about, sometimes two or even three on a flower, but not usually for long, as they are so often on the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skippers are a constant source of attraction pretty much all summer and into the fall in our yard. They may have their favorites but they are generally everywhere, from the black-eye Susans (Rudbekia) as seen here, to the Verbena bonariensis, the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum), and the Buddleia. They are everywhere and it pretty &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12957\">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":[170,29,121,1523,89,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957"}],"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=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12961,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}