{"id":16020,"date":"2018-11-08T13:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2018-11-11T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:32:14","slug":"eastern-comma-polygonia-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16020","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Comma (<em>Polygonia comma<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16023\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16023\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Comma (Polygonia comma)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16023\" data-wp-pid=\"16023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/img_20181108_160187.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Comma (<em>Polygonia comma<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was a bit surprised this afternoon to see this butterfly and was happy to be able to get close enough for a pretty good photograph. It turns out that the commas overwinter as adults and they can be seen on warmer days, such as today. The name comes from a curved, comma shaped mark on the underside of their hind wings. Another species in the genus has a question mark (and therefore is called the question mark instead of a comma). It&#8217;s a pretty little thing and it really brightened up my day to come across it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit surprised this afternoon to see this butterfly and was happy to be able to get close enough for a pretty good photograph. It turns out that the commas overwinter as adults and they can be seen on warmer days, such as today. The name comes from a curved, comma shaped mark &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=16020\">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":[6],"tags":[96,1366,1365,73,121,879,58,1369,1368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020"}],"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=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16024,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}