{"id":17296,"date":"2019-07-09T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17296"},"modified":"2019-07-16T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T00:01:19","slug":"epargyreus-clarus-silver-spotted-skipper-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17296","title":{"rendered":"<em>Epargyreus clarus<\/em> (Silver-spotted Skipper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17298\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17298\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Epargyreus clarus (Silver-spotted Skipper)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17298\" data-wp-pid=\"17298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img_20190709_167369.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Epargyreus clarus<\/em> (Silver-spotted Skipper)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As we were getting ready to leave for work this morning, running a bit late, as we often do, I paused to take a few pictures of butterflies and skippers on the goose neck loosestrife (<em>Lysimachia clethroides<\/em>) growing by the driveway. This is a silver-spotted skipper (<em>Epargyreus clarus<\/em>), one of the larger skippers we see regularly in our garden, with a wingspan up to about five centimeters. It is common through most of North America and certainly common for us. They&#8217;re easily identified by the large, silvery-white irregular spot on their hind wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we were getting ready to leave for work this morning, running a bit late, as we often do, I paused to take a few pictures of butterflies and skippers on the goose neck loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides) growing by the driveway. This is a silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus), one of the larger skippers we see &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17296\">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":[1825,1823,88,879,1824,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296"}],"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=17296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17299,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17296\/revisions\/17299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}