{"id":4187,"date":"2019-12-31T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:07:40","slug":"nymphalidae-danaus-plexippus-monarch-asteraceae-solidago-mexicana-seaside-goldenrod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2019\/12\/31\/nymphalidae-danaus-plexippus-monarch-asteraceae-solidago-mexicana-seaside-goldenrod\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch \u2022 FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/about-david-allio\/brief\/biography\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/photography\/2019\/nymphalidae-danaus-plexippus-monarch-asteraceae-solidago-mexicana-seaside-goldenrod-2019fl_0544473.jpg\" title=\"Monarch\" alt=\"Nymphalidae Danaus plexippus Monarch Asteraceae Solidago Mexicana Seaside Goldenrod Butterflies Moths of North America verified accepted BAMONA Crawfordville Florida\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Monarch<\/em> <small>&#8211; Americana Collection<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Monarch <em>Danaus plexippus<\/em> butterfly migration brings many Lepidoptera through northern Florida.  This specimen was seen around a food source of Seaside Goldenrod <em>Solidago mexicana<\/em> blooming in uncut fence lines and pond border.  It has been verified and accepted in the photographic library of the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) project.  A sighting details page for this butterfly is available at the BAMONA web site: https:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization\u2019s web site, the Butterflies and Moths of North America project is an ambitious effort to collect and provide access to quality-controlled data about butterflies and moths for the continent of North America from Panama to Canada.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><small>camera: <b>Nikon D500<\/b> | lens: <b>AF Nikkor VR 300mm f\/2.8G IF-ED<\/b><br \/>focal length: 420mm | exposure: f\/11 &#8211; 1\/1000th second &#8211; ISO 500<\/small><\/center><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nymphalidae Danaus plexippus Monarch Asteraceae Solidago Mexicana Seaside Goldenrod Butterflies Moths of North America verified accepted BAMONA Americana Collection original photography by David Allio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[597,598,1166,1165],"tags":[773,940,386,1242],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danaus-plexippus","category-monarch-butterfly","category-seaside-goldenrod","category-solidago-mexicana","tag-butterfly-photography","tag-fl-florida","tag-nikon-usa","tag-sunny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-15x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}