{"id":17475,"date":"2012-07-17T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e5fb07108bd20537026ad23c9be5e282"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:26:44","slug":"giant-swallowtail-papilio-cresphontes-in-flower-hill-farm-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/giant-swallowtail-papilio-cresphontes-in-flower-hill-farm-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) In Flower Hill Farm Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am sharing this mornings sighting and quite a joyous one! A Giant Swallowtail floating around our bee balm and milkweed blooms allowed me to get close enough to capture these images. At one point I had to chase a catbird away!I have never seen this beauty before and read that it is a rare sighting here in Massachusetts.If you would like to learn more about this awesome butterfly click<\/p>\n

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I was not the only one excited by this impressive butterfly . . . the Silver-spotted Skippers and Monarchs were happy to greet the Giant Swallowtail too.<\/p>\n

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I only hope it survived the Catbirds! A gift of global warming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am sharing this mornings sighting and quite a joyous one! A Giant Swallowtail floating around our bee balm and milkweed blooms allowed me to get close enough to capture these images. At one point I had to chase a catbird away!I have never seen this beauty before and read that it is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2145520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[61,810],"class_list":["post-17475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-butterflies","tag-giant-swallowtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}