{"id":2064,"date":"2010-08-14T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2010-08-14T18:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:22:03","slug":"a-good-year-for-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"A good year for butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/milkweed-butterflies.JPG' title='milkweed-butterflies.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/milkweed-butterflies.JPG' alt='milkweed-butterflies.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Butterflies on the milkweed behind Acorn Abbey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of butterflies this year, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_(butterfly)\">monarch butterflies<\/a>. The presence of monarch butterflies is a good indicator on the health and variety of the local ecosystem. The life cycle of monarch butterflies is dependent on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milkweed\">milkweed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though I wish I had more milkweed here, there is a very fine milkweed plant behind Acorn Abbey, near the edge of the woods. I&#8217;m sure there will be more in future years. Though I broke down and mowed my grass this year, still there are lots of wild spots and hedges where the native species can volunteer and grow as they please. I think these wild areas are very helpful to the animal and insect population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butterflies on the milkweed behind Acorn Abbey I&#8217;ve seen a lot of butterflies this year, particularly monarch butterflies. The presence of monarch butterflies is a good indicator on the health and variety of the local ecosystem. The life cycle of monarch butterflies is dependent on milkweed. Though I wish I had more milkweed here, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2064\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A good year for butterflies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}