{"id":810804,"date":"2016-02-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=d4d9870ab4ea6ce9e79f10fdbdfebd9a"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:10","slug":"a-butterfly-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-butterfly-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Butterfly Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tired of grey February skies? Here’s a nice butterfly from warmer and brighter times last year.<\/p>\n

It’s an American Lady, Vanessa virginiensis.<\/p>\n

Its upper side is black and orange with white spots and a touch of purple in some of the spots on the hind wing.<\/p>\n

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From below it looks like another butterfly altogether: pink and beige and purple with a spider-web-like net of white lines. The two large eyes pots on the hind wing distinguish it from the similar closely related butterfly, Vanessa cardui, the painted lady, which has a row of four small eye spots there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here is the underside of a Painted Lady for comparison. Note four eye spots on the hind wing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tired of grey February skies? Here’s a nice butterfly from warmer and brighter times last year. It’s an American Lady, Vanessa virginiensis. Its upper side is black and orange with white spots and a touch of purple in some of the spots on the hind wing.          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2196399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-m8UfnjfuKA4\/Vsopql_sXpI\/AAAAAAAAFoA\/DWwKhwHwe44\/s1600\/butterfly2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1705,194,1997,1995],"class_list":["post-810804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-lady","tag-butterfly","tag-vanessa-cardui","tag-vanessa-virginiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810804","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=810804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}