{"id":6494,"date":"2014-08-31T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2014-09-06T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T17:58:02","slug":"skipper-on-caryopteris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6494","title":{"rendered":"Skipper on Russian Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6496\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6496\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Skipper on Caryopteris\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6496\" data-wp-pid=\"6496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/img_20140831_091272.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skipper on Caryopteris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dorothy and I went in to church early this morning because she was singing and needed to be there for practice. I forgot to bring my book, so I had some free time. There are two small islands in the parking lot planted with caryopteris, which is quite happy there and blooming quite profusely. That&#8217;s another good insect magnet and I decided to go see what I could find. I like the head-on pictures I took of a small skipper on the top of a caryopteris stem. It&#8217;s a little thing, only about 1.5cm across.<\/p>\n<p>Update: I originally labeled the flower this skipper is on as Caryopteris. It&#8217;s not. Instead, it is Russian Sage (<em>Perovskia atriplicifolia<\/em>). I often get those mixed up in my head, but fortunately, Cathy keeps them straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy and I went in to church early this morning because she was singing and needed to be there for practice. I forgot to bring my book, so I had some free time. There are two small islands in the parking lot planted with caryopteris, which is quite happy there and blooming quite profusely. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=6494\">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\/6494"}],"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=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6513,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}