{"id":17057,"date":"2016-05-04T08:36:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T18:13:12","slug":"beast-with-two-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17057","title":{"rendered":"Beast with two heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>beast with two heads<\/em> is meant to evoke Iago&#8217;s remark about the <em>beast with two backs<\/em> (<em>Othello<\/em>\u00a0Act 1, Scene 1, ll. 126-127), for like the bard&#8217;s\u00a0beast, this butterfly with two heads is a\u00a0copulating pair.<\/p>\n<p>The blending wings of Margined Whites\u00a0really make them look like\u00a0a single beast with a head at each end.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17059\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/marginedwhite160502bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The odd thing is that they would fly around attached, and then stop to feed. Here, the male is sipping nectar.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17060\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/marginedwhite160502as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The upper surfaces of wings\u00a0became\u00a0visible just before each flight to a new perch.\u00a0Repeatedly, the couple chose to follow the old advertising slogan to <em>fly united<\/em>.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17058\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/marginedwhite160502cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The beast with two heads is meant to evoke Iago&#8217;s remark about the beast with two backs (Othello\u00a0Act 1, Scene 1, ll. 126-127), for like the bard&#8217;s\u00a0beast, this butterfly with two heads is a\u00a0copulating pair. The blending wings of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17057\">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-17057","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\/17057","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=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions\/17075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}