{"id":8677,"date":"2015-08-04T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8677"},"modified":"2015-08-10T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T12:16:48","slug":"epargyreus-clarus-silver-spotted-skipper-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8677","title":{"rendered":"<em>Epargyreus clarus<\/em> (Silver-spotted Skipper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8679\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8679\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Epargyreus clarus&lt;\/em&gt; (Silver-spotted Skipper)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8679\" data-wp-pid=\"8679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150804_110226.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Epargyreus clarus<\/em> (Silver-spotted Skipper)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is one of the larger skippers and is quite conspicuous because of the bright, white streak on the hind wings, visible when it is at rest. It is a harder thing to get a picture of than the smaller skippers, being more shy to being approached. Even this picture isn&#8217;t everything I could have wanted, but I suppose it&#8217;s good enough. The bees on the mountain mint, all around where I was standing when I took this, were quite thick. I wish I could take a picture to show you how many of them there are, but to show the whole area, I need to get far enough away that the bees are too small. It&#8217;s the motion that I really love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the larger skippers and is quite conspicuous because of the bright, white streak on the hind wings, visible when it is at rest. It is a harder thing to get a picture of than the smaller skippers, being more shy to being approached. Even this picture isn&#8217;t everything I could have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8677\">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\/8677"}],"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=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8681,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}