{"id":13478,"date":"2012-11-12T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2012-11-26T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T16:48:01","slug":"gulf-fritillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/gulf-fritillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Fritillary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of butterflies enjoy visiting our garden, but they’re usually flitting around too quickly to capture them in photos. A couple days ago this Gulf Fritillary<\/a> took a while to warm up in the autumn chill, so Dave had a chance to take these great shots. The butterfly even found a sunny perch on a Sobralia<\/a> bud. Its brilliant orange wings and body dramatically contrast with the unfolding purple bloom.<\/p>\n

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Sights like these are their own reward, and also a reminder of what toxic pesticides can destroy. I’d rather have a few bugs on my plants and be able to enjoy nature, so I avoid artificial chemicals and rely on beneficial insects<\/a>. Gulf Fritillaries have an enormous range through much of the Western Hemisphere, spanning from the USA to Argentina. The caterpillars feed on passionflower plants, and it’s likely this insect once munched on our large purple passionflower vine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of butterflies enjoy visiting our garden, but they’re usually flitting around too quickly to capture them in photos. A couple days ago this Gulf Fritillary took a while to warm up in the autumn chill, so Dave had a chance to take these great shots. The butterfly even found a sunny perch on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13502,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions\/13502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}