{"id":301,"date":"2020-07-25T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T08:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/?p=301"},"modified":"2020-07-25T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T08:23:45","slug":"common-blue-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/common-blue-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Blue Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p><strong><em>Spotted by Volunteer Camilla<\/em><\/strong>.<em> First logged 19\/07\/20.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/large.jpeg?resize=338%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" width=\"338\" height=\"412\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/large.jpeg?w=839&amp;ssl=1 839w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/large.jpeg?resize=246%2C300&amp;ssl=1 246w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/large.jpeg?resize=768%2C937&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><figcaption>Common Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Polyommatus icarus<\/strong>, common name \u2013 Common Blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Status<\/strong> It remains widespread but there have been local declines within its range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Size and Family<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Family: Blues<\/li><li>Size: Small<\/li><li>Wing Span Range (male to female): 35mm<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conservation Status\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Butterfly Conservation priority: low <\/li><li>European status: Not threatened<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caterpillar Foodplants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Common Bird\u2019s-foot-trefoil (<em>Lotus corniculatus<\/em>) is the main foodplant. Other plants used include: Greater Bird\u2019s-foot-trefoil (<em>L. pedunculatus<\/em>), Black Medick (<em>Medicago lupulina<\/em>), Common Restharrow (<em>Ononis repens<\/em>), White Clover (<em>Trifolium repens<\/em>), Lesser Trefoil (<em>T. dubium<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/butterfly-conservation.org\/butterflies\/common-blue\">More Information on Butterfly-Conservation here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ten Acres Habitation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Zone 7 \u2013 In the grassy area of the woodland conservation area after the Bewdley Road entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"303\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zone-07-after-bewdley-2.png?resize=303%2C430&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zone-07-after-bewdley-2.png?w=303&amp;ssl=1 303w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Zone-07-after-bewdley-2.png?resize=211%2C300&amp;ssl=1 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted by Volunteer Camilla. First logged 19\/07\/20. Polyommatus icarus, common name \u2013 Common Blue Status It remains widespread but there have been local declines within its range. Size and Family Family: Blues Size: Small Wing Span Range (male to female): 35mm Conservation Status\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-butterflies","category-flora-n-fauna"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/large.jpeg?fit=839%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reavalleystirchley.co.uk\/TenAcres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}