{"id":570,"date":"2006-06-16T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/16\/sara-longwing-butterfly\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T17:51:26","slug":"sara-longwing-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/16\/sara-longwing-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Longwing Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sara Longwing (<em>Heliconius Sara Theudela<\/em>)<\/a> is a common, tropical butterfly at the edges and in the more open areas of the lowland jungles of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Heliconius-Sara-Theudela-2.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly in Costa Rica\" title=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly in Costa Rica\" width=\"480\" height=\"380\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Longwing butterflies have long, rounded forewings with two broad, white bands. Their ventral wing surfaces are dark brown and spotted with red at the base, while their dorsal wing surfaces are black and washed with metallic blue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Heliconius-Sara-Theudela-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly in Costa Rica\" title=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly in Costa Rica\" width=\"480\" height=\"380\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Costa Rican subspecies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterflyworld.com\/butterflyguide\/HeliconiusSaraTheudela.html\">H. Sara Theudela<\/a> has a broad, white edge on the hindwings which is absent in other H. Sara butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Heliconius-Sara-Theudela-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly on Palicourea flowers\" title=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly on Palicourea flowers\" width=\"480\" height=\"380\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Sara Longwing butterflies seemed to be especially fond of these brilliant orange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobot.org\/MOBOT\/Research\/taylor\/palicourea.shtml\">Palicourea (Palicourea sp.)<\/a> flowers, and a small, fluttering cloud of these lovely butterflies would quickly gather around these popular flowers whenever the frequent rains subsided.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/June\/Heliconius-Sara-Theudela-4.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly on Palicourea flowers\" title=\"Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) butterfly on Palicourea flowers\" width=\"400\" height=\"482\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sara Longwing butterflies lay their eggs on passionflower (<em>Passiflora<\/em> spp.) vines, and since Sara Longwing butterflies are one of the species of <em>Heliconius<\/em> that engage in pupal mating, adult male Sara Longwing butterflies will also seek out these larval food plants. Male Sara Longwing butterflies will search for the distinctive pheromones of female pupae on the passionflower vines. Once a male finds a female pupa ready to emerge the next day, he will wait there perched on it and then mate with the new female just as she is emerging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara Theudela) is a common, tropical butterfly at the edges and in the more open areas of the lowland jungles of Costa Rica. Sara Longwing butterflies have long, rounded forewings with two broad, white bands. Their ventral wing surfaces are dark brown and spotted with red at the base, while their&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/06\/16\/sara-longwing-butterfly\/\" 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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}