{"id":2204,"date":"2022-11-07T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:43:34","slug":"rare-butterfly-eaten-by-endangered-frog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/rare-butterfly-eaten-by-endangered-frog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Butterfly Eaten by Endangered Frog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>by<a class=\"mention\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.e-butterfly.org\/u\/peter_hall\"> @Peter_Hall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While on a two-week holiday in Arizona starting in late October, I visited the Ramsey Canyon Nature Conservancy Reserve in the Huachuca Mountains. On a hike up the canyon creek, I came across a small pond covered with a pond weed. A rare and very local Chiricahua White (<em>Neophasia terlootii<\/em>) orange female (photo 1) landed on the pond weed to drink (strange in itself).<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\">\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Chiricahua White F - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/original\/1X\/021353506290283a4ff81bc332a20919a5db5756.jpeg\" data-download-href=\"\/uploads\/short-url\/immhYRrR86PHVwU90C5xtD4YNo.jpeg?dl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/021353506290283a4ff81bc332a20919a5db5756_2_665x500.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/021353506290283a4ff81bc332a20919a5db5756_2_665x500.jpeg, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/021353506290283a4ff81bc332a20919a5db5756_2_997x750.jpeg 1.5x, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/021353506290283a4ff81bc332a20919a5db5756_2_1330x1000.jpeg 2x\" alt=\"Chiricahua White F - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" width=\"665\" height=\"500\" data-base62-sha1=\"immhYRrR86PHVwU90C5xtD4YNo\" data-dominant-color=\"80824F\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta\"><span class=\"filename\">Chiricahua White F &#8211; Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022<\/span><span class=\"informations\">1920\u00d71443 484 KB<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then a white and black male which I had taken a photo of earlier along the creek (photo 2) also landed near the female. Suddenly a large frog leaped up from under the pond weeds and swallowed the male. The pond was established to breed the very endangered Chiricahua Leopard Frog (<em>Rana chiricahuensis<\/em>) (photo 3 of frog after he ate the butterfly).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\">\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Chiricahua White M - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/original\/1X\/f326f12f545ba77f8673e94390a607ab93b47fbe.jpeg\" data-download-href=\"\/uploads\/short-url\/yH1sqgacugnakCjiAebQ5o8WnqC.jpeg?dl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/f326f12f545ba77f8673e94390a607ab93b47fbe_2_636x500.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/f326f12f545ba77f8673e94390a607ab93b47fbe_2_636x500.jpeg, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/f326f12f545ba77f8673e94390a607ab93b47fbe_2_954x750.jpeg 1.5x, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/f326f12f545ba77f8673e94390a607ab93b47fbe_2_1272x1000.jpeg 2x\" alt=\"Chiricahua White M - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" width=\"636\" height=\"500\" data-base62-sha1=\"yH1sqgacugnakCjiAebQ5o8WnqC\" data-dominant-color=\"6F4E3A\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta\"><span class=\"filename\">Chiricahua White M &#8211; Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022<\/span><span class=\"informations\">1920\u00d71508 281 KB<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightbox-wrapper\">\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Chiricahua Leopard Frog - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" href=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/original\/1X\/bbf50bec101f839ae58124277c6884d27660e713.jpeg\" data-download-href=\"\/uploads\/short-url\/qOKip126g8lOX4QjiW3fGTQMKLp.jpeg?dl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/bbf50bec101f839ae58124277c6884d27660e713_2_677x500.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/bbf50bec101f839ae58124277c6884d27660e713_2_677x500.jpeg, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/optimized\/1X\/bbf50bec101f839ae58124277c6884d27660e713_2_1015x750.jpeg 1.5x, https:\/\/canada1.discourse-cdn.com\/standard30\/uploads\/e_butterfly\/original\/1X\/bbf50bec101f839ae58124277c6884d27660e713.jpeg 2x\" alt=\"Chiricahua Leopard Frog - Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022\" width=\"677\" height=\"500\" data-base62-sha1=\"qOKip126g8lOX4QjiW3fGTQMKLp\" data-dominant-color=\"777650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta\"><span class=\"filename\">Chiricahua Leopard Frog &#8211; Ramsey Canyon, Arizona, Oct. 31, 2022<\/span><span class=\"informations\">1292\u00d7954 262 KB<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on a two-week holiday in Arizona starting in late October, I visited the Ramsey Canyon Nature Conservancy Reserve in the Huachuca Mountains. On a hike up the canyon creek, I came across a small pond covered with a pond weed. A rare and very local Chiricahua White (Neophasia terlootii) orange female (photo 1) landed on the pond weed to drink (strange in itself).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-butterfly.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}