{"id":2006,"date":"2011-06-21T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2011-06-25T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T14:47:12","slug":"butterflies-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies for lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are worse ways to spend one\u2019s lunch hour than to wander around looking at butterflies. I saw a number of species midday, but only two were wont to pose long enough for me to take satisfactory portraits.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite is this first picture of a Pale Swallowtail on the fresh growth of a Douglasfir. Notice that it isn\u2019t feeding. Not only does the Douglasfir offer no nectar, but the butterfly\u2019s probosces is coiled below its head.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2007\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/paleswallowtail110618s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, this Western Tiger Swallowtail on a Western Red Cedar must merely be resting. It is siesta time.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2009\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/westerntigerswallowtail1100620as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look at the coiled probosces of this Pale Swallowtail. It is clearly not feeding.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2010\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/paleswallowtail110620bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Entomologists have long suspected that the function of the tails on the swallowtail butterflies is to mislead hungry birds. A bird would grab at the tail and it would merely break off. This swallow\u2013half\u2013tail butterfly is evidence of the success of the butterfly\u2019s ruse.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/westerntigerswallowtail110621s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are worse ways to spend one\u2019s lunch hour than to wander around looking at butterflies. I saw a number of species midday, but only two were wont to pose long enough for me to take satisfactory portraits. My favourite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2006","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\/2006","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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}