{"id":39860,"date":"2025-09-08T16:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=39860"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:18:34","slug":"little-things-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/09\/little-things-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Little things for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of pics for the time being &#8211; I&#8217;m in the middle of sorting and some sorting finds will be along when I finish, so right now, we have a couple of recent discoveries for giggles.<\/p>\n<p>First off, last night the five bebby anoles that could be found on the Japanese maple nearest the door to Walkabout Studios could be captured in a single frame<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FoiveAtOnce.jpg\" alt=\"five juvenile Carolina anoles Anolls carolinensis sleeping in leaves of Japanese maple\" width=\"750\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39861\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Can you find them all? You remember that they turn much paler when they sleep at night, right?<\/p>\n<p>Another little discovery, mostly because I saw something too dissimilar from the rest, which was this dark grey &#8216;leaf&#8217; dangling from one of the sicklepod (<em>Senna obtusifolia<\/em>) plants<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AmSnoutScale.jpg\" alt=\"chrysalis of unknown butterfly, possibly American snout Libytheana carinenta, attached to branch of sicklepod Senna obtusifolia\" width=\"750\" height=\"1035\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39862\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is cropped a little wider to show scale, but you can still see the web strand anchoring it to the branch in the middle. The details seem to indicate that this is actually a chrysalis, supported by the view when we go in closer<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AmSnoutMaybe.jpg\" alt=\"chrysalis of unknown butterfly, possibly American snout Libytheana carinenta, attached to sicklepod Senna obtusifolia branch\" width=\"750\" height=\"916\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39864\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The segmented abdomen (attached to the stem,) the wings, and the antennae are all distinct enough, but that&#8217;s an awfully pointy head, isn&#8217;t it? This might have given me pause if I hadn&#8217;t seen a species that seemed to match, <a href=\"http:\/\/Libytheana carinenta\" target=\"_blank\">almost exactly five years ago<\/a><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BuggHatto.jpg\" alt=\"American snout butterfly Libytheana carinenta apparently finding Buggato&#039;s hat interesting\" width=\"750\" height=\"612\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27016\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is, I&#8217;m almost certain, an American snout butterfly (<em>Libytheana carinenta<\/em>,) and both that snout and the wings seem like a pretty good match to me. I&#8217;m trying to monitor the chrysalis to see if I can capture it while emerging, but I can&#8217;t sit there all day long, much less for the several days that this might take to finally occur. So, you may see it, you may not &#8211; that&#8217;s all I can say.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s never &#8220;all I can say&#8221; &#8211; we both know better. Meanwhile, the sorting finds will be along soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of pics for the time being &#8211; I&#8217;m in the middle of sorting and some sorting finds will be along when I finish, so right now, we have a couple of recent discoveries for giggles. First off, last night the five bebby anoles that could be found on the Japanese maple nearest [&hellip;]<\/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":[5660,531,4081,8274,5524,5661,3441,8256,8255],"class_list":["post-39860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-american-snout","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-chrysalis","tag-japanese-maple","tag-libytheana-carinenta","tag-maybe","tag-senna-obtusifolia","tag-sicklepod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860","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=39860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}