{"id":8862,"date":"2021-09-02T19:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:55:44","slug":"sometimes-its-just-about-the-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/sometimes-its-just-about-the-color\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It&#8217;s Just About the Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The other day I was in our back yard with one of our little dogs when a large Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly landed on one of our bougainvillea bushes. My first reaction was &#8220;wow&#8221; the colors of the butterfly and the flowering shrub were amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush.jpg\" alt=\"Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Resting On Bougainvillea Bush\" class=\"wp-image-98474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-resting-on-bougainvillea-bush-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Resting on a Bougainvillea Bush<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Thankfully, the butterfly liked the pollen on the flowers and stayed long enough for me to run in the house, grab my camera and get some shots. This was one time when the image through the lens was every bit as good as the live image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/insects\/\">Insects<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was in our back yard with one of our little dogs when a large Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly landed on one of our bougainvillea bushes. My first reaction was &#8220;wow&#8221; the colors of the butterfly and the flowering shrub were amazing. Thankfully, the butterfly liked the pollen on the flowers and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-8862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210620-5-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly-on-purple-bougainvillea-bush.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109160,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/109160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}