{"id":613,"date":"2010-07-17T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2010-07-17T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:22:24","slug":"3-new-types-of-butterfly-marbled-white-meadow-brown-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/3-new-types-of-butterfly-marbled-white-meadow-brown-map\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new types of butterfly &#8211; Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another early morning trip to the lake this morning, in the hunt for interesting insect life, gleaned three species of butterfly (all beginning with M) I had yet to photograph. I also went in search of damselflies, but will post those tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>This one I had not noticed before. It&#8217;s black and white on the topside and this is the underside. I didn&#8217;t get a good enough shot to post of the top side. But there were a few of these round the lake, so I hope to get one in due course. (They are not found in the UK).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_602\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9339_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-602\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9339_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9339_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-602\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map - Araschnia levana (prorsa)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Next up the marbled white. Classic pose on a thistle flower. The lovely blue background is actually the water of the lake reflecting the sky.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_606\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9316_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9316_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9316_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-606\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marbled White - Melanargia galathea<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last up a Meadow brown. Seen loads of these but had trouble getting close enough for a shot. When they&#8217;re eating, they&#8217;re much more approachable.  :yes: <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_604\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9338_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-604\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9338_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9338_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-604\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those were my three butterfly selections from today&#8217;s crop. I&#8217;ll post up the damselfly shots tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another early morning trip to the lake this morning, in the hunt for interesting insect life, gleaned three species of butterfly (all beginning with M) I had yet to photograph. I also went in search of damselflies, but will post those tomorrow. This one I had not noticed before. It&#8217;s black and white on the <a href='http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/3-new-types-of-butterfly-marbled-white-meadow-brown-map\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[70,71,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}