{"id":37808,"date":"2024-11-13T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T11:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37808"},"modified":"2024-11-12T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T05:07:29","slug":"just-once-part-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/11\/just-once-part-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 46"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have a double this week, a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae<\/em>) and thistle flowers (Asteraceae<\/em>.) The thistle is not so surprising, since while it is abundant in central New York where I took this, I haven’t yet seen it in North Carolina where I spend the vast majority of my time, and truth be told, I don’t seek out thistle flowers as photo subjects – it was the cabbage white that attracted my attention. Those<\/em> can be found all over the US, but I had a vague suspicion that maybe I didn’t have much chance to see one since their preferred food was thistle nectar;<\/strong> a check with BugGuide.net disavowed me of that notion – they sup from lots of plants. So perhaps it was just that I don’t often pursue the smaller butterflies. Or maybe they really are scarce around here, for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

It was the delicate green color that made me frame this subject, but the other reason that I feature this here is that it was taken not with any form of macro lens, but the Tamron 150-600 at 600mm instead, which can’t focus within two meters. I admit I was chasing birds instead that day, but this subject presented itself and so I snagged it, and was lucky enough to catch the multiple false pupils in the eyes (we are talking about the butterfly right now.)<\/p>\n

Actually, I tell a lie. Not only have I featured thistle flowers<\/a> here before, I can now recall two separate occasions where I found them in North Carolina (neither of them is that link, which was Florida.) I don’t think I’ve posted images of either of those occasions here, but obviously I still showed thistles at that link, so we only have the cabbage white as a singular appearance. At least so identified. It’s probably not even the only ‘macro’ shot with that lens featured here. I’ll try and do better next week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have a double this week, a cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) and thistle flowers (Asteraceae.) The thistle is not so surprising, since while it is abundant in central New York where I took this, I haven’t yet seen it in North Carolina where I spend the vast majority of my time, and truth be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[6248,6245,6246,6247],"class_list":["post-37808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-asteraceae","tag-cabbage-white-butterfly","tag-pieris-rapae","tag-thistle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}