{"id":4631,"date":"2026-01-15T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:18:03","slug":"butterfly-camouflaged-nymphalidae-polygonia-comma-eastern-comma-plant-vitaceae-grapevine-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/2026\/01\/15\/butterfly-camouflaged-nymphalidae-polygonia-comma-eastern-comma-plant-vitaceae-grapevine-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Comma \u2022 IN"},"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\/2026\/polygonia-comma\/Nymphalidae_Polygonia-comma_Eastern-Comma_03-5002451.jpg\" title=\"Eastern Comma\" alt=\"butterfly camouflaged Nymphalidae Polygonia comma Eastern Comma plant Vitaceae grapevine Indiana\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\"\/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><cite>Eastern Comma<\/cite> <small>&#8211; Americana Collection<\/small><\/p><\/div>\n<p>An Eastern Comma <cite>Polygonia comma<\/cite> rests on a grapevine leaf camouflaged by wing ventral side patterned to appear as leaves, bark, or other natural surroundings when closed. Note, the Eastern Comma butterfly is named for the white mark on the lower ventral wing &#8211; a punctuation mark &#8211; a comma.<\/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: 450mm | exposure: f\/9 &#8211; 1\/1250 &#8211; iso 3200<\/small><\/center><center><\/p>\n<hr size=1 width=69%\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This image has been verified and accepted into 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eastern Comma Polygonia comma rests on a grapevine leaf camouflaged by wing ventral side patterned to appear as leaves, bark, or other natural surroundings when closed. Butterflies Moths of North America (BAMONA) verified accepted 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1251,1258,596,1257,1256],"tags":[1252,773,891,386],"class_list":["post-4631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterflies-and-moths-of-north-america-bamona","category-eastern-comma","category-nymphalidae-family-of-brush-footed-butterflies","category-polygonia-comma","category-vitaceae","tag-bamona","tag-butterfly-photography","tag-in-indiana","tag-nikon-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p21yji-1cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631","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=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4640,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions\/4640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidallio.com\/da-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}