{"id":650,"date":"2006-10-05T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/05\/tailed-orange-butterfly-summer-form\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T05:21:35","slug":"tailed-orange-butterfly-summer-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/05\/tailed-orange-butterfly-summer-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailed Orange Butterfly, Summer Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter form (dry-season) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=1451&#038;chosen_state=04*Arizona\">Tailed Orange (Pyrisitia proterpia)<\/a> butterflies have tail-like projections on their hindwings, while the summer form (monsoon or wet-season) butterflies like this one do not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/Pyrisitia-proterpia.jpg\" alt=\"Tailed Orange Butterfly (Pyrisitia proterpia), Summer Form\" title=\"Tailed Orange Butterfly (Pyrisitia proterpia), Summer Form\" width=\"480\" height=\"406\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Tailed Orange butterfly was taking shelter under a leaf from the first scattered drops of an afternoon thunderstorm near Tucson in early September. As soon as rain threatens, butterflies seem to almost magically disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Tailed Orange butterflies have yellow ventral wing surfaces and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasbutterflies.com\/Butterflies\/html\/proterpia.html\">orange dorsal wing surfaces<\/a> that are mainly visible in flight. These butterflies can best be identified by their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariposasmexicanas.com\/pyrisitia_proterpia.htm\">hindwing &#8220;tails&#8221;<\/a>, and if these are not present, they can be recognized by their squared-off, point-tipped forewings and by the slanted, almost cutoff appearance of the straight lower edge of their hindwings.<\/p>\n<p>Adult Tailed Orange butterflies feed on flower nectar, while their caterpillars feed on plants in the Pea Family (Fabaceae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter form (dry-season) Tailed Orange (Pyrisitia proterpia) butterflies have tail-like projections on their hindwings, while the summer form (monsoon or wet-season) butterflies like this one do not. This Tailed Orange butterfly was taking shelter under a leaf from the first scattered drops of an afternoon thunderstorm near Tucson in early September. As soon as rain&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/05\/tailed-orange-butterfly-summer-form\/\" 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-650","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\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}