{"id":6756,"date":"2018-09-20T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2020-08-14T01:52:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:52:16","slug":"american-snout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/american-snout\/","title":{"rendered":"American Snout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, our mountain mint was just alive with pollinators.\u00a0 It’s always covered in bees and wasps but I was thrilled to discover a variety of butterflies there too – and several species that I don’t observe all that often in my yard, including this American Snout butterfly.\u00a0 I do have several hackberry trees (the host plant for the American Snout caterpillar) but I rarely catch a glimpse.\u00a0\u00a0 This one was my favorite image with it’s proboscis there clearly drinking from the flower.<\/p>\n

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This website from the University of FL<\/a> has some great information on this species.\u00a0 I was particularly surprised by how similarly the egg and chrysalis resemble the Monarch Butterfly.<\/p>\n

Glad to have added this one to my collection of butterfly images!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, our mountain mint was just alive with pollinators.\u00a0 It’s always covered in bees and wasps but I was thrilled to discover a variety of butterflies there too – and several species that I don’t observe all that often in my yard, including this American Snout butterfly.\u00a0 I do have several hackberry trees (the host […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,443,1192,922,923,1001,11,300,1188],"tags":[1159,446,13,15,294,832,293,1215,1196,1158,1240],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-butterflies","category-butterflies-of-loudoun-county-virginia","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","category-portraiture","category-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint","tag-americansnout","tag-butterfly","tag-flower","tag-garden","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-pycnanthemum-muticum","tag-snout","tag-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}