{"id":6761,"date":"2018-09-21T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2020-08-14T01:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T05:51:35","slug":"gray-hairstreak-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/gray-hairstreak-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Hairstreak Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago I spotted this gray hairstreak butterfly on our mountain mint.\u00a0 I rarely see hairstreaks in my yard either but the mountain mint is like magic, attracting all sorts of pollinators I might otherwise not see, especially this time of year when so many of the blooms are fading.<\/p>\n

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But even more impressive, I think, is when I opened this image in the computer and spotted the tiny wasp in the opposite diagonal of the frame.\u00a0 Check it out!\u00a0 If you’ve seen a hairstreak butterfly you’ll know they’re pretty small butterflies… then to see this wasp alongside it… Wow!\u00a0 Talk about tiny!\u00a0 Nature is incredible!<\/p>\n

Here’s a closer crop:<\/p>\n

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Now I just wish I’d seen it real-time so I could have gotten in closer and gotten a good sharp picture of the wasp as well.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Gray Hairstreak Butterfly<\/a> check out the website linked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two days ago I spotted this gray hairstreak butterfly on our mountain mint.\u00a0 I rarely see hairstreaks in my yard either but the mountain mint is like magic, attracting all sorts of pollinators I might otherwise not see, especially this time of year when so many of the blooms are fading. But even more impressive, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,443,1192,922,923,1001,11,300,1188,1],"tags":[446,15,294,832,293,1215,984,1196,1240,1160],"class_list":["post-6761","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","category-uncategorized","tag-butterfly","tag-garden","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-pollinator","tag-pycnanthemum-muticum","tag-things-you-see-on-mountain-mint","tag-wasp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","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=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}