{"id":37164,"date":"2013-04-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=e3e1f1bca10363e1b53eb395d548105c"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:43:04","slug":"mangrove-skipper-phocides-pigmalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/mangrove-skipper-phocides-pigmalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangrove Skipper, Phocides pigmalion."},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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The Mangrove Skipper (Phocides pigmalion) is a member of the Spread Wing Skippers of the Hesperidae family of butterflies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Found in the Mangrove forests of Florida, this large (48-70mm wingspan) skipper is a strong flyer and is often seen perching upside down with spread wings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The iridescent blue markings are beautiful and, along with it’s size and perching posture, make identification easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mangrove Skipper (Phocides pigmalion) is a member of the Spread Wing Skippers of the Hesperidae family of butterflies. Found in the Mangrove forests of Florida, this large (48-70mm wingspan) skipper is a strong flyer and is often seen perching upside down with spread wings. The iridescent blue markings are beautiful and, along with it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2146226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[61,32,3967,3965,3966,2668],"class_list":["post-37164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-butterflies","tag-florida","tag-hesperidae","tag-mangrove-skipper","tag-phocides-pigmalion","tag-steven-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}