{"id":7011,"date":"2019-07-15T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2019-07-18T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T11:08:45","slug":"summer-butterflies-in-gunnersbury-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/summer-butterflies-in-gunnersbury-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Butterflies in Gunnersbury Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9006-GT-Ringlet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9006-GT-Ringlet.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9006-GT-Ringlet-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9006-GT-Ringlet-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Ringlet, a handsome species we&#8217;ve hardly seen here, increasing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8975-GT-Peacock-on-Buddleia.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A Peacock butterfly on Buddleia: once a common sight in every suburban garden, now a special treat. We used to call the Buddleia the &#8220;butterfly bush&#8221;; it would be covered in Nymphalids &#8211; Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Painted Lady, sometimes dozens at once.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch-1024x762.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch-1024x762.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN8965-GT-Red-Admiral-sunning-on-Birch.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Red Admiral sunning on Birch by the small meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9001-GT-newly-emerged-Hawker-dragonfly-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9001-GT-newly-emerged-Hawker-dragonfly.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9001-GT-newly-emerged-Hawker-dragonfly-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9001-GT-newly-emerged-Hawker-dragonfly-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/RSCN9001-GT-newly-emerged-Hawker-dragonfly-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Definitely not a butterfly: a newly-emerged Southern Hawker dragonfly stretching its wings just above the main pond amongst the Fool&#8217;s Water-cress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9004-Water-Plantain-beside-the-boardwalk-550x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7020\" width=\"308\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9004-Water-Plantain-beside-the-boardwalk-550x1024.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9004-Water-Plantain-beside-the-boardwalk-81x150.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9004-Water-Plantain-beside-the-boardwalk-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9004-Water-Plantain-beside-the-boardwalk.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><figcaption>Water-Plantain beside the boardwalk: the water table is really low for this early in the summer. Netty failed to find any new-season toadlets around the pond where she&#8217;d expect them to be. The leaves are slightly heart-shaped, but nowhere near as arrowhead-like as its cousin the Arrowhead.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/DSCN9003-Water-Plantains-3-petalled-flower.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Water-Plantain&#8217;s 3-petalled flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[1143,1480,1485,1482,126,573,815,897,1486],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-history","tag-buddleia","tag-butterfly-bush","tag-dragonfly-emergence","tag-fools-watercress","tag-peacock-butterfly","tag-red-admiral","tag-ringlet","tag-southern-hawker","tag-water-plantain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}