{"id":1532,"date":"2021-05-05T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2021-05-05T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:00:50","slug":"northern-broken-dash-wallengrenia-egeremet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Northern broken-dash <em>(Wallengrenia egeremet)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"779\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_broken_dash_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_broken_dash_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_broken_dash_01-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_broken_dash_01-768x623.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/northern_broken_dash_01-624x506.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Scott Leddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern broken-dash, Dun skipper, and little glassywing are called \u201cthe three witches\u201d because their dark wings make it difficult to tell \u201cwhich one is which.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northern broken-dash <em>(Wallengrenia egeremet)<\/em> is a small, dark, nondescript, grass skipper. It occurs in the United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. It is most common in the northeast from Maine to Michigan south to Massachusetts and Ohio. It is uncommon but sometimes locally abundant throughout its range, including in Minnesota. Adults are found from late June to mid-August in open places near wooded or shrubby areas, including fields, pastures, meadows, woodland edges, gardens, and roadsides. They drink nectar from white, pink, and purple flowers, including alfalfa, red clover, dogbane, New Jersey tea, milkweed, and blazing star. Larva feed on the leaves of panic grasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upper side of both wings is dark brown with pale markings and a brownish fringe. On the male the leading edge of the forewing is pale. The group of specialized scent scales (stigma) on the male forewing is black and is interrupted in the middle, like a \u201cbroken dash\u201d. This is the feature that gives the species its common name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/northern_broken-dash.html\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/northern_broken-dash.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1532\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern broken-dash, Dun skipper, and little glassywing are called \u201cthe three witches\u201d because their dark wings make it difficult to tell \u201cwhich one is which.\u201d Northern broken-dash (Wallengrenia egeremet) is a small, dark, nondescript, grass skipper. It occurs in the United States and southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. It is most common in [&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":[667],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}