Back in the beginning of the gardening season,\u00a0 my garden, along with the rest of the Northeast, was inundated with Red Admiral butterflies.\u00a0 Now, as the season begins to winds down, we have a bumper crop of Painted Ladies.\u00a0 Both are colorful, with wings that combine white, black and orange.<\/p>\n
It is probably better that the two groups haven’t convened at the same time.\u00a0 Students of history know that at various times more than one admiral (red or otherwise) has consorted with a painted lady.\u00a0 The results have been mixed.<\/p>\n
Learn more about the Red Admiral at http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species\/Vanessa-atalanta.\u00a0 The same site has a page on the Painted Lady–http:\/\/www.buterfliesandmoths.org\/species\/Vanessa-cardui.<\/p>\n
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Back in the beginning of the gardening season,\u00a0 my garden, along with the rest of the Northeast, was inundated with Red Admiral butterflies.\u00a0 Now, as the season begins to winds down, we have a bumper crop of Painted Ladies.\u00a0 Both are colorful, with wings that combine white, black and orange. It is probably better that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3,1],"tags":[260,228,261,262],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-general-interest","category-summer","category-uncategorized","tag-butterflies","tag-butterfly-gardening","tag-painted-lady-butterfly","tag-red-admiral-butterfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenersapprentice.com\/gardeningtips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}