{"id":1045,"date":"2017-09-16T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2017-09-16T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T11:53:26","slug":"huge-influx-of-painted-ladies-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Huge Influx of Painted Ladies in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1046\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1046\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08.jpg\" alt=\"painted lady\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/painted_lady_08-624x499.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Minnesotans are seeing the huge influx of painted lady <em>(Vanessa cardui)<\/em> butterflies in the summer of 2017. Observers from the Twin Cities to Detroit Lakes and Pennington County have reported seeing \u201c15 plus,\u201d \u201cdozens\u201d, \u201clots and lots,\u201d and \u201cplentiful\u201d painted lady butterflies this year. Lora in Corcoran reports them \u201cswarming the soy bean field across the road.\u201d Ruth in Big Stone County reports seeing \u201cclouds of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Painted ladies are both migratory and cyclic. They overwinter in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. They migrate north in the spring in most years, temporarily repopulating the United States and Canada. Some years they do not migrate at all. In years of much rain on the wintering grounds the northward migrations are enormous. They migrate south beginning in August and continuing through November. They are cyclic because some years their populations are large, some years small.<\/p>\n<p>Painted lady butterflies are very similar in appearance to American Lady <em>(Vanessa virginiensis)<\/em> butterflies. Painted lady is less orange above. The large spot near the tip of the forewing is always white, never pale orange. The black band in the middle of the forewing creates an isolated orange spot. The dark spots on the hindwing are smaller, do not touch, and do not have blue centers. There are four eyespots on the underside of the hindwing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/painted_lady.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/painted_lady.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1045\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesotans are seeing the huge influx of painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterflies in the summer of 2017. Observers from the Twin Cities to Detroit Lakes and Pennington County have reported seeing \u201c15 plus,\u201d \u201cdozens\u201d, \u201clots and lots,\u201d and \u201cplentiful\u201d painted lady butterflies this year. Lora in Corcoran reports them \u201cswarming the soy bean field across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[419,420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}