{"id":226,"date":"2011-11-24T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:10:25","slug":"november-the-first-few-butterflies-of-the-year-in-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"November: The first few butterflies of the year in my garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-227\" title=\"DSCN0721\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0721-892x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0721-892x1024.jpg 892w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0721-261x300.jpg 261w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0721.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Thanks to the few rain showers we\u2019ve had over the last month, my flowers are still in full bloom. And the butterflies have finally come to visit them! I haven\u2019t seen many butterflies in my garden since moving here. I am assuming it\u2019s because the drought had such a large impact. I was out there today planting my rain lily and daffodil bulbs and the butterflies were buzzing around me. They were getting pretty frisky too. I watched them laying their eggs on the tips of my Dalea flowers. There were several species of caterpillars munching around under the sage leaves. I wonder what they will be doing once the cold temps settle in on Saturday. I&#8217;m just grateful that I had covered the flowers from those short bursts of frost we had over the last weeks. I am certain I would not have had the bee and butterfly population right now if I hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_229\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"size-large wp-image-229\" title=\"DSCN0747\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0747-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0747-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0747-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0747-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lovely painted lady blessing my garden with her presence.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_230\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"size-large wp-image-230\" title=\"DSCN0756\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0756-1024x833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0756-1024x833.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0756-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSCN0756-368x300.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From what I can tell this is a Reakirt\u2019s Blue. They were just so sweet hanging out together on my Dalea.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the few rain showers we\u2019ve had over the last month, my flowers are still in full bloom. And the butterflies have finally come to visit them! I haven\u2019t seen many butterflies in my garden since moving here. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=226\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}