{"id":48789,"date":"2013-10-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=0b0ddee18db0545865ebaf658edfd6bc"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T07:00:05","slug":"autumnal-equinox-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/autumnal-equinox-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumnal Equinox Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The autumn equinox occurred at 4:44 this afternoon, EDT, giving us 12 hours of daylight and 12 of dark as the sun crossed the celestial equator. Summer ended. Autumn began. Here are pictures of some of the last of summer’s butterflies (and one lovely moth) taken in my Brooklyn neighborhood during the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Cabbage White, Pieris rapae.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Buckeye, Junonia coenia.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sachem, a skipper butterfly, Atalopedes campestris.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ailanthus webworm moth, Atteva aurea.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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American Lady, Vanessa virginiensis.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

A haiku written by the Japanese poetKobayashiIssa in1814:<\/p>\n

“Are you awarethat autumn has dawned? meadow butterfly”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The autumn equinox occurred at 4:44 this afternoon, EDT, giving us 12 hours of daylight and 12 of dark as the sun crossed the celestial equator. Summer ended. Autumn began. Here are pictures of some of the last of summer’s butterflies (and one lovely moth) taken in my Brooklyn neighborhood during the last few weeks. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2147253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1705,2450,518,3762,1995],"class_list":["post-48789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-lady","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-pieris-rapae","tag-skipper-butterfly","tag-vanessa-virginiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48789","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}