{"id":7548,"date":"2019-03-15T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7548"},"modified":"2019-03-15T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T01:53:19","slug":"california-tortoiseshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/03\/california-tortoiseshell\/","title":{"rendered":"California Tortoiseshell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At about 5:30, while wandering around St. John&#8217;s Cemetery enjoying the first warm spring day, I saw a number of California Tortoiseshell butterflies flying under some live oaks. I tried to count them but they were moving too fast: at least half a dozen, probably more. They were very active, but some of them settled long enough for me to take their photo. I noticed that the edges of their wings were quite worn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Tortoiseshells are migratory butterflies. They hibernate in winter in the foothills of the Coast Range &#8212; St. John&#8217;s Cemetery could be considered in the foothills of the northern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains . According to Arthur M. Shapiro in Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions: &#8220;When they emerge from hibernation in late winter the males are late-afternoon territorial perchers in classic nymphaline style.&#8221; Indeed, the butterflies I saw appeared to be patrolling territories, perching in one spot and periodically circling around a small area, sometimes flying at other butterflies in nearby territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went back to the house to get a camera with a better zoom, but by the time I had returned, the sun was almost below the horizon and the butterflies had gone away.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519b-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BlogMar1519b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 5:30, while wandering around St. John&#8217;s Cemetery enjoying the first warm spring day, I saw a number of California Tortoiseshell butterflies flying under some live oaks. I tried to count them but they were moving too fast: at least half a dozen, probably more. They were very active, but some of them settled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/03\/california-tortoiseshell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Tortoiseshell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[648,215],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-lepidoptera","tag-san-mateo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7551,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}