Please excuse the funkiness of the first couple of seconds. I don’t know what caused that.<\/p>\n
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I don’t know what species this is, but it’s pretty much the perfect slo-mo subject: flapping furiously but the center-of-mass is not moving very much, and didn’t fly away at my approach. I missed an even better shot while I was unslinging my camera; two of these butterflies were doing some sort of aerial ballet \u2014 either a mating ritual or fighting (or maybe both), but separated just as I got set to shoot.<\/p>\n
Taken at Conway Robinson Memorial State Forest in Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Please excuse the funkiness of the first couple of seconds. I don’t know what caused that. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I don’t know what species this is, but it’s pretty much the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,63],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-video","tag-slow-motion-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}