{"id":2040,"date":"2015-04-12T11:07:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2015-04-12T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T11:15:09","slug":"butterflies-at-stanley-ferry-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies at Stanley Ferry Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Encouraged by the good spell of weather over the Easter Bank Holiday period I had a walk around Stanley Ferry Flash on 9 April 2015.\u00a0 There were good numbers of peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies and several brimstone butterflies.\u00a0 These species overwinter as adults and this year their main emergence appears to have coincided very nicely with an explosion of dandelion and willow flowers for them to feed on.\u00a0 An image of a peacock butterfly feeding high on a willow tree is attached. Also, shown are images of blackthorn and coltsfoot seen in flower on the same day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2041\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2041\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2041\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2041\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2041\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PEACOCK001.jpg\" alt=\"Peacock on willow\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PEACOCK001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PEACOCK001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PEACOCK001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peacock on willow<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2042\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2042\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2042\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2042\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2042\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKTHORN001.jpg\" alt=\"blackthorn flowers\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKTHORN001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKTHORN001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BLACKTHORN001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">blackthorn flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2043\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=2043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2043\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2043\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2043\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COLTSFOOT01.jpg\" alt=\"coltsfoot\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COLTSFOOT01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COLTSFOOT01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/COLTSFOOT01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">coltsfoot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraged by the good spell of weather over the Easter Bank Holiday period I had a walk around Stanley Ferry Flash on 9 April 2015.\u00a0 There were good numbers of peacock and small tortoiseshell butterflies and several brimstone butterflies.\u00a0 These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=2040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}