{"id":11560,"date":"2014-09-06T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2014-09-06T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:35:25","slug":"flower-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"Flower sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have watched many nectar sippers on flowers. The arrival of a second one usually drives the first away.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I was watching both a Drone Fly (<i>Eristalis tenax<\/i>) and a Western White Butterfly (<em>Pontia occidentalis<\/em>) roam around a field of Asters (<i>Canadanthus modestus?<\/i>) as they sipped nectar. What was unexpected was that at one point they shared the same flower for a while with no apparent sense of conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/westernwhite140906Hs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have watched many nectar sippers on flowers. The arrival of a second one usually drives the first away. Today, I was watching both a Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax) and a Western White Butterfly (Pontia occidentalis) roam around a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11560\">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":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","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=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}