{"id":89,"date":"2008-06-28T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/?p=89"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:56:09","slug":"black-swallowtail-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2008\/06\/28\/black-swallowtail-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Swallowtail Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I have been graced by the visit of another beautiful swallowtail butterfly. As I mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2008\/06\/04\/western-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly\/\">post a few weeks ago<\/a>, we haven&#8217;t had many butterflies this year, but the few that we have had have been large swallowtails.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papilio_polyxenes\">black swallowtail<\/a> was feeding on the catnip and Korean licorice mint plants in the front courtyard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/black_swallowtail750.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swallowtail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Swallowtail on Licorice Mint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/black_swallowtail3_750.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swallowtail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Swallowtail on Licorice Mint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/black_swallowtail4_750.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swallowtail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Swallowtail on Licorice Mint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"captionfull\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/imageshome\/black_swallowtail5_750.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swallowtail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black Swallowtail on Licorice Mint<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It continues to be very hot and dry here. I am spending my mornings watering everything just to keep them alive. There is a chance of rain tomorrow, but I am not getting my hopes up. I don&#8217;t want to get too depressed if we are passed by again.<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<br \/>\nCarol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I have been graced by the visit of another beautiful swallowtail butterfly. As I mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/2008\/06\/04\/western-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly\/\">post a few weeks ago<\/a>, we haven&#8217;t had many butterflies this year, but the few that we have had have been large swallowtails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[143,349,144,66],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly","category-photography","tag-black-swallowtail","tag-butterfly","tag-butterfly-gardening","tag-nature-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phuiL-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostvalleygardens.com\/LVGblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}