{"id":25031,"date":"2026-03-29T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25031"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:42:55","slug":"mourning-cloak-nymphalis-antiopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25031","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Cloak (<em>Nymphalis antiopa<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25033\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25033\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_20260329_029570.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Cloak (<em>Nymphalis antiopa<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the Agricultural History Farm Park today. As usual we started in the woodland shade garden and then moved into the Master Gardeners&#8217; demonstration garden. There wasn&#8217;t a lot in the way of plant life yet there, but things are starting to show signs of spring. There was, however, this mourning cloak butterfly (<em>Nymphalis antiopa<\/em>), which is not one I&#8217;ve seen very often. It&#8217;s a pretty thing, I think. Very different to the swallowtails and quite distinctive (meaning no disrespect to the swallowtails, they&#8217;re nice, too, but we see them everywhere).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the Agricultural History Farm Park today. As usual we started in the woodland shade garden and then moved into the Master Gardeners&#8217; demonstration garden. There wasn&#8217;t a lot in the way of plant life yet there, but things are starting to show signs of spring. There was, however, this mourning cloak butterfly &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25031\">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":[96,1677,879,3841,3843,3842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031"}],"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=25031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25034,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25031\/revisions\/25034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}