{"id":632,"date":"2009-06-17T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T04:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/more-from-the-california-academy-of-sciences\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:41:16","slug":"more-from-the-california-academy-of-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/more-from-the-california-academy-of-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the California Academy of Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/13\/rainforest-in-a-bubble\/\">the tropical rainforest exhibit<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/\">California Academy of Sciences<\/a>. The first set shows 2 kinds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrums<\/a>. With fragrant green, white, and purple flowers, Epidendrum paniculatum is a common species found from Mexico and Belize south to Brazil and Argentina. There are several color varieties of this species throughout its large range. The last picture in this set shows a different Epidendrum species with a solid purple color.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Epidendrum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Epidendrum flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Epidendrum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Epidendrum flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Epidendrum flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_paniculatum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Epidendrum flower\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Epidendrum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/epidendrum_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Epidendrum flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have several readers who are butterfly lovers, and I promised some more pictures. These stunning beauties were flying all over the exhibit, but they don&#8217;t sit still for long, so taking pictures is a challenge. There are 2 more shots of poison dart frogs, named because Amazon natives used poisons from the frogs&#8217; skins on the tips of blowdarts. The colorful frogs are tiny, under 1 inch (2.5 cm) long. Most species are critically endangered because of habitat destruction, climate change, and pollution. The Academy of Sciences works for conservation of these frogs and many more rare species, including endangered orchids.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tropical butterfly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical butterfly\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Tropical butterfly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical butterfly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Costa Rican poison dart frog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/orange_and_black_poison_dart_frog_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/orange_and_black_poison_dart_frog_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rican poison dart frog\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Poison dart frog from Madagascar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/golden_mantella_poison_dart_frog_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/golden_mantella_poison_dart_frog_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Poison dart frog from Madagascar\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are even more butterflies. Along with the blue gecko in the last photo, they show a little tropical color from this amazing Academy of Sciences exhibit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tropical butterfly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical butterfly\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Tropical butterfly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical butterfly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tropical butterfly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/butterfly_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Tropical butterfly\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Blue lizard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blue_gecko_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/blue_gecko_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Blue lizard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some more photos from the tropical rainforest exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. The first set shows 2 kinds of Epidendrums. With fragrant green, white, and purple flowers, Epidendrum paniculatum is a common species found from Mexico and Belize south to Brazil and Argentina. There are several color varieties of this species [&hellip;]<\/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":[21,12,20,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-fragrant-orchids","category-misc","category-photos","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}