{"id":31303,"date":"2023-06-30T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31303"},"modified":"2023-06-30T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:55:51","slug":"dont-cut-those-nettles-share-them-with-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31303","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We may know that some of are most spectacular butterflies like red admiral (admiral), painted lady (tistelsommerfugl), comma (hvit C), small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl) and peacock (dagp\u00e5fugl\u00f8ye) may lay their eggs on nettles (Urtica), but did you know that just here in Norway there are 51 species of moths that do the same and two of the most beautiful were in the garden this morning:<br \/>1. The burnished brass \/ mindre b\u00e5ndmetallfly (<em>D\u2060iachrysia stenochrysis<\/em>)<br \/>2. The small magpie \/ n\u2060esleengmott <em>(A\u2060nania<\/em> hortulata)<br \/>So, please keep a patch of nettles in the garden all summer (you can still eat the young shoots)&#8230;there are also several birds such as bullfinches (dompap) and finches such as brambling (bj\u00f8rkefink) that eat the seed in winter!<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130220.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130220-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130208.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130208-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130208-768x510.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/P2130208-640x425.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may know that some of are most spectacular butterflies like red admiral (admiral), painted lady (tistelsommerfugl), comma (hvit C), small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl) and peacock (dagp\u00e5fugl\u00f8ye) may lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1406,3247],"tags":[2515,4215,2518,2721,2519,4228,2511,2512,2520,2514,4156,2510,2513],"class_list":["post-31303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-butterflies-and-moths","category-nettles","tag-admiral","tag-burnished-brass","tag-comma-butterfly","tag-dagpafugloye","tag-hvit-c","tag-mindre-bandmetallfly","tag-neslesommerfugl","tag-painted-lady","tag-peacock-butterfly","tag-red-admiral","tag-small-magpie","tag-small-tortoiseshell","tag-tistelsommerfugl"],"views":1238,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31306,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31303\/revisions\/31306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}