{"id":31441,"date":"2023-08-18T17:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31441"},"modified":"2023-08-18T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:37:06","slug":"fleet-of-admirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=31441","title":{"rendered":"Fleet of Admirals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The numbers of red admiral butterflies have been building up over the last week and today with my large Buddleja davidii in full flower and warm summer weather, I counted at least 15 of the beauties, no doubt second generation butterflies from the influx we had earlier in the summer. I reported this earlier in our national web-based reporting system. To my surprise this was the largest number reported this year not only in the county but in the whole country! It seems to be a poor year for red admirals in the south of the country.\u00a0<br \/>My Buddleja (butterfly bush \/ sommerfuglbusk) has become large despite cutting it back severely every winter. It was planted here under the balcony so that I could get a good view from above from a self-sowed plant from another bush in the garden in 2010.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-31441-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Admiral_on_Buddleja.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Admiral_on_Buddleja.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Admiral_on_Buddleja.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1234\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral.png 1234w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral-300x147.png 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral-1024x502.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral-768x377.png 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Flest_Admiral-640x314.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1234px) 100vw, 1234px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8184373.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8184373.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8184373-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8184373-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/P8184373-640x854.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers of red admiral butterflies have been building up over the last week and today with my large Buddleja davidii in full flower and warm summer weather, [&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":[1406],"tags":[2515,296,4693,2514,4692,510],"class_list":["post-31441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterflies-and-moths","tag-admiral","tag-buddleja-davidii","tag-butterfly-bush","tag-red-admiral","tag-sommerfuglbusk","tag-the-edible-garden"],"views":1069,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441","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=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31445,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions\/31445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}