{"id":421,"date":"2006-02-20T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2006\/02\/20\/texan-crescent-and-desert-marigolds\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T05:24:09","slug":"texan-crescent-and-desert-marigolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/20\/texan-crescent-and-desert-marigolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Texan Crescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring begins early here in Tucson, and February is a good time to spot newly emerged butterflies like this <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/01\/09\/texan-crescent-butterfly\/\">Texan Crescent (Anthanassa texana or Phyciodes texana)<\/a> butterfly on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/252\/baileya-multiradiata-desert-marigold\/\">Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata)<\/a> flower.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/February\/Anthanassa-texana.jpg\" alt=\"Texan Crescent (Anthanassa texana or Phyciodes texana) butterfly on a Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata) flower\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While these butterflies are certainly not colorful, their bold, brown patterns are a nice contrast to the solid golden Desert Marigold flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring begins early here in Tucson, and February is a good time to spot newly emerged butterflies like this Texan Crescent (Anthanassa texana or Phyciodes texana) butterfly on a Desert Marigold (Baileya multiradiata) flower. While these butterflies are certainly not colorful, their bold, brown patterns are a nice contrast to the solid golden Desert Marigold&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/02\/20\/texan-crescent-and-desert-marigolds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-butterflies-and-moths","category-arizona-invertebrates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}