{"id":653,"date":"2010-07-22T20:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2010-07-22T20:14:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:14:43","slug":"first-red-admiral-of-the-year-an-interesting-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/first-red-admiral-of-the-year-an-interesting-moth\/","title":{"rendered":"First Red Admiral of the year + an interesting moth."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen endless peacocks, speckled woods, ringlets, cabbage whites, and meadow browns in the garden in Zgierz (I even saw what looked like a swallowtail fying quite high up one day  \ud83d\ude0e ), today marked the first sighting of a Red Admiral. They like cherries. This one was first seen heading for the cherry tree, where I soon scared it by getting too close. After that (s)he headed over to the compost area to find some rotting apples which fell off the tree. But the closest shot I got was after eating some apple, it headed into a tree to roost at about a foot above my head height and upside down. Light was bad, so I used the pop-up onboard flash. Unusual angle, but good facial and outside wing detail &#8211; and we&#8217;ve all seen Red Admirals before anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_652\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9735_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9735_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9735_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-652\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And this moth was seen in the woods on the way back from a session at the lake yesterday evening. No idea what it is.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9713_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9713_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9713_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No idea what this moth is<\/p><\/div> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen endless peacocks, speckled woods, ringlets, cabbage whites, and meadow browns in the garden in Zgierz (I even saw what looked like a swallowtail fying quite high up one day \ud83d\ude0e ), today marked the first sighting of a Red Admiral. They like cherries. This one was first seen heading for the cherry tree, <a href='http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/first-red-admiral-of-the-year-an-interesting-moth\/' 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":[88,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}