{"id":3869,"date":"2013-07-17T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T04:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2013-07-18T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T18:44:07","slug":"tiger-swallowtail-on-tiger-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3869","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Swallowtail on Tiger Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3870\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3870\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Swallowtail on Tiger Lily\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130717_063214.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiger Swallowtail on Tiger Lily<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I left for work this morning I saw this tiger swallowtail butterfly (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) on a tiger lily (<em>Lilium lancifolium<\/em>). I didn&#8217;t think I could let that opportunity pass without at least trying to get a picture. I took quite a few, starting relatively far away and working in a bit closer as she didn&#8217;t fly off. I am pretty happy with a good number of the images.<\/p>\n<p>She kept circling the flower and would occasionally open her wings, but most of the good pictures show her in profile, like this. I did get a couple that are mostly of the butterfly and don&#8217;t show the entire flower, but I thought I&#8217;d use this one here. A few were closer still and in them you can see the individual scales on the butterfly&#8217;s wing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s turned quite hot the last day or three and I was glad to get my photo-taking out of the way in the morning. That way I didn&#8217;t have to do it later in the day or even when I got home. My car said it was 101&#xb0;F at 5:30 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I left for work this morning I saw this tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) on a tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium). I didn&#8217;t think I could let that opportunity pass without at least trying to get a picture. I took quite a few, starting relatively far away and working in a bit closer as she &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3869\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869"}],"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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}