{"id":663,"date":"2010-07-23T19:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2010-07-23T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:20:45","slug":"painted-lady-vanessa-cardui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/painted-lady-vanessa-cardui\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted lady &#8211; Vanessa cardui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still after a good topside photo of the European Map, but a sharp, close, open-winged, straight on shot so far eludes me.  \ud83d\ude25 Although I&#8217;ve got plenty of shots, they are all slightly lacking in some way. But in my pursuit of this today, I happened across my first Painted Lady of the year (in Zgierz). <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_658\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9819_011.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-658\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9819_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9819_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-658\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted lady - Vanessa cardui<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rather battered (looks as if it has escaped being eaten by a bird &#8211; or maybe the result of migration?) But even with a significant chunk of wing missing, this one appeared to be in total control of its flight ability.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_662\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9829_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-662\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9829_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_9829_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-662\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted lady - Vanessa cardui<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As is normal for painted ladies, this one was quite tricky to get close to, but fortunately was very keen to feed on these flowers, so didn&#8217;t go far away when spooked. And when it realised I wasn&#8217;t after a butterfly sandwich for breakfast, it let me get quite close.  :yes: <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_660\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9821_01.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DSC_9821_02.jpg\" alt=\"Painted lady - Vanessa cardui\" title=\"DSC_9821_02\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"size-full wp-image-660\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted lady - Vanessa cardui<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still after a good topside photo of the European Map, but a sharp, close, open-winged, straight on shot so far eludes me. \ud83d\ude25 Although I&#8217;ve got plenty of shots, they are all slightly lacking in some way. But in my pursuit of this today, I happened across my first Painted Lady of the year <a href='http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/painted-lady-vanessa-cardui\/' 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":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}