{"id":2286,"date":"2025-09-02T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:14:37","slug":"summer-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/2025\/09\/02\/summer-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER BUTTERFLIES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-bb9d32683690e6e894dce212a6ccd842\" style=\"color:#7facb8\"> I have several mature Paw Paw trees in my back yard, and 20+ small ones started for a nice grove on the hill side. Lots of the small ones are only around six inches or so tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b9695f7310bd1c8bbaf036121385dee0\" style=\"color:#7facb8\">I recently learned that Paw paws trees are the ONLY host plant for the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d5f0068977fae5ead2bc5cebef5e253b\" style=\"color:#7facb8\">Today I was cutting weeds around the little trees and saw a mature Mommy carefully checking out each little tree. It was awesome that she knew just which ones were weeds and which ones were trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-65784b8216f7f83f00f6311a7e61c9b1\" style=\"color:#7facb8\">Then I noticed that some of the trees had babies on them. They were only half an inch long so it was really difficult to get a proper picture with my phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/clipimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2287\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/clipimage.jpg 660w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/clipimage-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/09\/clipimage-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have several mature Paw Paw trees in my back yard, and 20+ small ones started for a nice grove on the hill side. Lots of the small ones are only around six inches or so tall. I recently learned that Paw paws trees are the ONLY host plant for the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly! Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-greeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosverbiageandvisuals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}