{"id":360,"date":"2022-04-11T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=360"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:08:12","slug":"beetles-damselfly-and-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/beetles-damselfly-and-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetles, Damselfly, and Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I received some lovely belated Christmas presents from my family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an African red heart butterfly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"788\" height=\"985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/35510F97-48DF-4DD1-8F16-14D42161F3BA.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/35510F97-48DF-4DD1-8F16-14D42161F3BA.jpeg 788w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/35510F97-48DF-4DD1-8F16-14D42161F3BA-240x300.jpeg 240w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/35510F97-48DF-4DD1-8F16-14D42161F3BA-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of these leaf beetles are used to control invasive weeds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"677\" height=\"791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F7965AC-34BE-4E80-8F59-9C36ABC3BFA0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F7965AC-34BE-4E80-8F59-9C36ABC3BFA0.jpeg 677w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F7965AC-34BE-4E80-8F59-9C36ABC3BFA0-257x300.jpeg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This beautiful, iridescent, blue butterfly lives in the South American rainforests.\u00a0<br><a href=\"http:\/\/s1207.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb475\/TulaKrystal\/?action=view&amp;current=MorphoMenelaus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"995\" height=\"930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ACCC0B5E-D265-4957-9CC6-145C0C9EEB14.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1852\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ACCC0B5E-D265-4957-9CC6-145C0C9EEB14.jpeg 995w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ACCC0B5E-D265-4957-9CC6-145C0C9EEB14-300x280.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ACCC0B5E-D265-4957-9CC6-145C0C9EEB14-768x718.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 995px) 100vw, 995px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a beautiful, purple sheen on this damselfly&#8217;s wings. This is a spectacular and ancient, carnivorous insect, that eats other bugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"897\" height=\"992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/7B11017E-7916-4E70-8374-DFA444A29CFE.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/7B11017E-7916-4E70-8374-DFA444A29CFE.jpeg 897w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/7B11017E-7916-4E70-8374-DFA444A29CFE-271x300.jpeg 271w, http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/7B11017E-7916-4E70-8374-DFA444A29CFE-768x849.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received some lovely belated Christmas presents from my family. This is an African red heart butterfly: A lot of these leaf beetles are used to control invasive weeds: This beautiful, iridescent, blue butterfly lives in the South American rainforests.\u00a0 There is a beautiful, purple sheen on this damselfly&#8217;s wings. This is a spectacular and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/beetles-damselfly-and-butterflies\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}