{"id":11084,"date":"2014-07-14T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:03:14","slug":"anise-swallowtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11084","title":{"rendered":"Anise Swallowtail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Acorn and Sheldon&#8217;s book, <em>Butterflies of British Columbia<\/em> (Lone Pine Publishing, 2006), the Anise Swallowtail is described as<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the most common swallowtail west of the Rockies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Locally,\u00a0I have had\u00a0frequent\u00a0views of\u00a0both\u00a0Western and Pale Swallowtails:\u00a0e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7982\">butterfly love<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7779\">yard delights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5624\">butterfly symposium<\/a>. Yet, it was not until a couple of days ago that I saw my first Anise. Further, another long-time butterfly watcher at the north end of the Lake, saw her first Anise only\u00a0a month ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How is it possible that what the experts claim\u00a0is common goes substantially unseen by keen\u00a0local observers? I don&#8217;t know, but a clue might lie in the fact\u00a0that we live in a well treed region and, as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anise_Swallowtail\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a> notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Anise Swallowtail is a butterfly of fairly open country&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Could it be that those\u00a0authors were\u00a0more familiar with the open countryside of the central southern regions of the Province than they were\u00a0of the forested West Kootenay?<\/p>\n<p>This Anise Swallowtail rarely opened its wings after\u00a0it alighted, so it was difficult to get a\u00a0classic shot of spread upper wings. However, this picture\u00a0provides a definitive view of the top of two of the four\u00a0wings.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11085 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aniseswallowtail140712bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Male\u00a0butterflies often sip moisture\u00a0in wet sand. The accompanying\u00a0nutrients\u00a0apparently increase fertility.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11087 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aniseswallowtail140712as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Anise Swallowtail Butterfly sets out to\u00a0increase his fertility.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aniseswallowtail140712cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In Acorn and Sheldon&#8217;s book, Butterflies of British Columbia (Lone Pine Publishing, 2006), the Anise Swallowtail is described as the most common swallowtail west of the Rockies. Locally,\u00a0I have had\u00a0frequent\u00a0views of\u00a0both\u00a0Western and Pale Swallowtails:\u00a0e.g., butterfly love, yard delights, butterfly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11106,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}