{"id":5624,"date":"2012-06-25T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T17:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2012-06-26T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:22:28","slug":"butterfly-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5624","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy polysemes&#8212;words with plural meanings. One might think that my title, butterfly symposium, must refer to a seminar of\u00a0lepidopterists. It doesn&#8217;t. The\u00a0root meaning of symposium is drinking party (sym: together; posium: to drink). Certainly, it is clear how the impression of reflective discourse arose from such a bibulous activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -10px; margin-left: 8px; width: 360px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><span style=\"color: #555555;\">I typically see butterflies in ones and twos, but on this occasion I tagged along with Janice Arndt on her rare-butterfly project for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiapower.org\/files\/WTCP_Poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Waneta Terrestrial Compensation Program<\/a>. There will be more postings from this jaunt as various butterflies are identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, these butterflies are holding a symposium: they are drinking together. Chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, butterflies often gather at moist areas to sip water laden with salt and nutrients (as distinct from\u00a0alcohol). These are things they don&#8217;t get from nectar.<\/p>\n<p>The butterflies in these pictures are Tiger Swallowtails. The white and black ones are Pale Tiger Swallowtails, while the yellow and black ones are Western Tiger Swallowtails. These are rather large, impressive, and fairly common butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>Pale Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies hold a symposium.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5629\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtail1s20621fs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies is drinking on its own.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5630\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtail120621es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As is this one. You can see the butterfly&#8217;s\u00a0proboscis\u00a0(its tongue) extending to the moist surface.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5631\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtail120621ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two Pales drink together. There is yellow pollen stuck to an abdomen and to the left, a Western Spring Azure.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5632\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtails120621cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The two species regularly go drinking together.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5633\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtails120621bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\">&#8220;I&#8217;m arriving a bit late; may I join you?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5634\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/swallowtails120621as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I enjoy polysemes&#8212;words with plural meanings. One might think that my title, butterfly symposium, must refer to a seminar of\u00a0lepidopterists. It doesn&#8217;t. The\u00a0root meaning of symposium is drinking party (sym: together; posium: to drink). Certainly, it is clear how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5624\">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-5624","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\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5653,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}