{"id":491,"date":"2012-04-16T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2012-10-02T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:09:51","slug":"can-you-spot-the-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Can you spot the butterfly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was walking to my compost pile to drop off our household veggie and fruit scraps. As I approached the entire compost pile just started to flutter with butterflies feasting on the decomposing oranges, lemons and moldy strawberries. I could not believe how many there were. Butterflies have a very interesting way of camouflaging themselves when threatened as you can see below: Can you spot the butterfly? Trust me, it is there.<a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-492\" title=\"compost pile and Question Mark butterflies\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1989-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1989-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1989-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1989-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Two seconds later it opened its beautiful wings and revealed itself to me: A Question Mark Butterfly <em>(Polygonia interrogationis).<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1990.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-494\" title=\"Question Mark Butterfly in compost pile\" src=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1990-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1990-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1990-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSCN1990-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was walking to my compost pile to drop off our household veggie and fruit scraps. As I approached the entire compost pile just started to flutter with butterflies feasting on the decomposing oranges, lemons and moldy strawberries. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=491\">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-491","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\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}