{"id":10070,"date":"2025-07-27T19:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2025-07-28T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:05:54","slug":"backyard-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/backyard-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not writing; I&#8217;m not editing. This is a rather strange feeling. Instead, I&#8217;m spending a lot of time outdoors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly-1146x1536.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/butterfly.jpg 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A monarch butterfly feeding on my coneflowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched this great spangled fritillary butterfly coming out of its cocoon this morning. (Update: ack!\u00a0This is actually the butterfly being attacked by a goldenrod crab spider!! Thanks\u00a0Linda Mikolayenko\u00a0for that dose of reality!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1440\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1440 \/ 1440;\" width=\"1440\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250727_121047.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-940x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-138x150.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-1410x1536.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon-1200x1308.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cocoon.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The front side of this great spangled fritillary butterfly emerging from its cocoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not writing; I&#8217;m not editing. This is a rather strange feeling. Instead, I&#8217;m spending a lot of time outdoors. I watched this great spangled fritillary butterfly coming out of its cocoon this morning. (Update: ack!\u00a0This is actually the butterfly being attacked by a goldenrod crab spider!! Thanks\u00a0Linda Mikolayenko\u00a0for that dose of reality!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10070\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}