{"id":67,"date":"2015-08-06T12:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-08-06T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:28:02","slug":"variegated-fritillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/2015\/08\/06\/variegated-fritillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Variegated Fritillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Variegated Fritillary (<em>Euptoieta claudia<\/em>) is a widespread butterfly whose normal range extends from Argentina into the southern United States. \u00a0The species is well known for northward movements each year well beyond its breeding range. \u00a0Sometimes those vagrants reach as far north as Maine. \u00a0We have 27 records of the species in the MBS records.<\/p>\n<p>On August 3, Ron Wilson found the first Variegated Fritillary ever for Nova Scotia. \u00a0Two days later, John Klymko photographed the first record of this species in New Brunswick. The odds of these two\u00a0Variegated Fritillaries being the only ones in northeastern North America right now are vanishingly small. \u00a0It&#8217;s good to keep an eye out for this butterfly in Maine. \u00a0Flower gardens and meadows are likely habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of pictures of a very worn\u00a0Variegated Fritillary I photographed in Colorado in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-dorsal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-dorsal.jpg\" alt=\"Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Nymphalidae Golden Gate State Park CO\" width=\"958\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-dorsal.jpg 958w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-dorsal-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-ventral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-69\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-ventral.jpg\" alt=\"Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia Nymphalidae Roxborough State Park CO\" width=\"640\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-ventral.jpg 790w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/files\/2015\/08\/Variegated-Fritillary-ventral-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) is a widespread butterfly whose normal range extends from Argentina into the southern United States. \u00a0The species is well known for northward movements each year well beyond its breeding range. \u00a0Sometimes those vagrants reach as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/2015\/08\/06\/variegated-fritillary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227921],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}