{"id":6185,"date":"2014-07-19T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T23:38:38","slug":"hairstreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6185","title":{"rendered":"Strymon melinus (Gray Hairstreak)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6187\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6187\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Strymon melinus&lt;\/em&gt; (Gray Hairstreak)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6187\" data-wp-pid=\"6187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/img_20140719_088184.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Strymon melinus<\/em> (Gray Hairstreak)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out to photograph bees on the mountain mint (<em>Pycnanthemum muticum<\/em>) and did get some, but the best pictures I got were of this male gray hairstreak (<em>Strymon melinus<\/em>). The light wasn&#8217;t perfect, but it was pretty good and with my camera on a tripod I was able to get as close as my macro lens will allow. I&#8217;ve posted a picture of a gray hairstreak once before (on <a href=\"?p=1545\" title=\"20120811\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday, August 11, 2012<\/a>) but I think this picture is a bit better. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed watching it move about on the flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to photograph bees on the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) and did get some, but the best pictures I got were of this male gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus). The light wasn&#8217;t perfect, but it was pretty good and with my camera on a tripod I was able to get as close as my &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6185\">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\/6185"}],"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=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}