{"id":14865,"date":"2018-08-19T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2018-08-23T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:27:38","slug":"monarch-danaus-plexippus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14865","title":{"rendered":"Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14867\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14867\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch (&lt;em&gt;Danaus plexippus&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14867\" data-wp-pid=\"14867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180819_157750.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monarch (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I got a few nice arthropod photos today, one spider (a Basilica Orbweaver (<em>Mecynogea lemniscata<\/em>) and a few bees. My post for today came down to a choice between this monarch and a photo of a <em>Philanthus gibbosus<\/em>, one of the thirty-some species of beewolves in our area. It&#8217;s a pretty little bee with pitted chitin and a distinctive pattern of yellow and black. I photographed it on a black-eyed Susan, which went well with its coloration. Nevertheless, I&#8217;ve decided to go with this rather nice photo of a monarch butterfly (<em>Danaus plexippus<\/em>). Oddly, most people who dislike insects don&#8217;t really mind butterflies. It&#8217;s true that they are pretty harmless to humans but then, so are a lot of other, more easily despised insects. Maybe it&#8217;s because they are so colorful and pretty, but frankly, I think wasps are pretty, so there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a few nice arthropod photos today, one spider (a Basilica Orbweaver (Mecynogea lemniscata) and a few bees. My post for today came down to a choice between this monarch and a photo of a Philanthus gibbosus, one of the thirty-some species of beewolves in our area. It&#8217;s a pretty little bee with pitted &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14865\">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":[137,96,230,878,73,121,879,229,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865"}],"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=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14868,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}