{"id":1440,"date":"2006-06-05T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:43:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:43:44","slug":"mystery-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Mystery skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Aren’t all skippers a mystery? The one skipper I can easily identify is the silver-spotted<\/a>. This one (anyone out there have an idea?) I found feeding the other day on the catmint (Nepeta sp.<\/em>) which was something of a surprise because most often this plant is loaded with bumblebees, but no butterflies. Catmints are very easy to grow (that’s why I love them), so long as they have full sun. It can be a bit aggressive, but is easily divided and spread around the garden or among neighbors.<\/span>
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I don’t know that I would recommend planting it in a place that is easily accessible to dogs – as the bees it attracts drive my dog just bonkers and one day soon he’s going to get himself stung good!<\/span>
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*Butterflying* has become near as popular as birding during the summer months after migration has ended. There are many butterfly id books on the market, the most popular probably being the Butterflies Through Binoculars<\/a> series by Jeffrey Glassberg. Great, technical book if you like that. I notice he’s recently published A Field Guide to Caterpillars<\/a> which I’ll have to be on the lookout for! As a beginner to butterflies, I prefer something with big, glossy photos like the Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Butterflies<\/a><\/span> – I don’t own it yet, but do have their guide to dragonflies and it is excellent.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly. “One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
– Hans Christian Andersen <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aren’t all skippers a mystery? The one skipper I can easily identify is the silver-spotted. This one (anyone out there have an idea?) I found feeding the other day on the catmint (Nepeta sp.) which was something of a surprise because most often this plant is loaded with bumblebees, but no butterflies. Catmints are very … Continue reading Mystery skipper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}