{"id":3514,"date":"2018-06-30T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2018-06-30T07:46:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T07:46:49","slug":"butterflies-dragonflies-and-damselflies-at-stanley-ferry-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies at Stanley Ferry Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, Stanley Ferry Flash produced my first sightings this summer for purple hairstreak and gatekeeper butterflies. The purple hairstreak was sheltering (out of the sun?) high up in a willow bush and surprisingly some distance from the site\u2019s main areas of oak trees where egg laying would normally occur.\u00a0 Other butterfly sightings included large skipper, several small tortoiseshell, numerous ringlet and meadow brown. Dragonflies and damselflies included brown hawker, four-spotted chaser, numerous black-tailed skimmer and common darter, together with emerald damselfly around the new large balancing pond just south of the main Stanley Ferry Flash.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3515\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=3515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3515\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3515\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3515\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMRLDDAMS01.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald Damselfly\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMRLDDAMS01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMRLDDAMS01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMRLDDAMS01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/EMRLDDAMS01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald Damselfly<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3516\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=3516\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3516\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3516\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3516\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LRGSKIPPER01.jpg\" alt=\"Large Skipper\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LRGSKIPPER01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LRGSKIPPER01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LRGSKIPPER01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LRGSKIPPER01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Skipper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3517\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=3517\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3517\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3517\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3517\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PURPHSTRAK01.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Hairstreak\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PURPHSTRAK01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PURPHSTRAK01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PURPHSTRAK01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PURPHSTRAK01-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Hairstreak<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Stanley Ferry Flash produced my first sightings this summer for purple hairstreak and gatekeeper butterflies. The purple hairstreak was sheltering (out of the sun?) high up in a willow bush and surprisingly some distance from the site\u2019s main areas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=3514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[282,412,88,413],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514"}],"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=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}