{"id":3922,"date":"2013-07-24T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2013-07-25T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T01:04:22","slug":"chlosyne-nycteis-silvery-checkerspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3922","title":{"rendered":"<em>Chlosyne nycteis<\/em> (Silvery Checkerspot)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3923\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3923\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Chlosyne nycteis (Silvery Checkerspot)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_20130724_063624.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chlosyne nycteis<\/em> (Silvery Checkerspot)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a cute little butterfly that&#8217;s appeared in our garden the last few days. It is a silvery checkerspot, <em>Chlosyne nycteis<\/em>, one of a genus of 20 to 25 species. It&#8217;s a smallish thing, between 1.5 and 2 inches across and seems quite fond of the black-eyed Susans, although they are on the mountain mint, as well, with about a jillion bees and wasps. The mountain mint has really come into full bee-attracting mode. There must be hundreds on that one small patch at any given time, especially in the heat of the day when the sun is shining on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cute little butterfly that&#8217;s appeared in our garden the last few days. It is a silvery checkerspot, Chlosyne nycteis, one of a genus of 20 to 25 species. It&#8217;s a smallish thing, between 1.5 and 2 inches across and seems quite fond of the black-eyed Susans, although they are on the mountain &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3922\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922"}],"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=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}