{"id":655,"date":"2006-10-16T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/16\/bordered-patch-butterflies\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T21:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T04:27:51","slug":"bordered-patch-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/16\/bordered-patch-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordered Patch Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=1712&#038;chosen_state=04*Arizona\">Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia)<\/a> butterflies are dark brown with white and orange markings and a characteristic orange patch on the hindwings near the tip of the abdomen. Bordered Patch butterflies are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariposasmexicanas.com\/chlosyne_lacinia_adjutrix.htm\">quite variable<\/a>, and it&#8217;s not uncommon to see several of the different variants together. Some of these butterflies have a broad band of orange across the hindwings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/Bordered-Patch-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" title=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While other Bordered Patch butterflies instead have a row of white spots across the hindwings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/Bordered-Patch-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" title=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" width=\"400\" height=\"522\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The forewings of Bordered Patch butterflies are also quite variable and can be marked with either white or orange spots or an orange band. A pale orange band can generally be seen on the ventral hindwings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/October\/Bordered-Patch-3.jpg\" alt=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" title=\"Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterfly\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adult Bordered Patch butterflies feed on flower nectar, and they are very attracted to mud. I spotted these ones &#8220;mud puddling&#8221; along a stream bank in the foothills of Arizona&#8217;s Santa Rita Mountains in early September. Bordered Patch caterpillars feed on plants in the Aster Family (Asteraceae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bordered Patch (Chlosyne lacinia) butterflies are dark brown with white and orange markings and a characteristic orange patch on the hindwings near the tip of the abdomen. Bordered Patch butterflies are quite variable, and it&#8217;s not uncommon to see several of the different variants together. Some of these butterflies have a broad band of orange&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/10\/16\/bordered-patch-butterflies\/\" 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-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}