{"id":15818,"date":"2011-12-02T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15818"},"modified":"2011-12-02T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:19:02","slug":"bahamas-butterfly-species-discovered-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/bahamas-butterfly-species-discovered-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Butterfly Species Discovered In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15822\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15822\" title=\"new-butterfly-species\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/new-butterfly-species.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/new-butterfly-species.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/new-butterfly-species-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pink-spot sulphur butterfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>South Florida has just gained a new wildlife species, one that had been hiding in plain sight in neighborhoods from Homestead to southern Palm Beach County.<\/p>\n<p>Say hello to the pink-spot sulphur butterfly. Like a winged member of the witness protection program, the butterfly had been living incognito in South Florida because of its superficial resemblance to two other species.<\/p>\n<p>The pink-spot&#8217;s presence in South Florida was confirmed in the past two weeks, thanks to a scientist&#8217;s patience in examining hundreds of thousands of specimens, a Facebook post to the butterfly community and a West Boca butterfly gardener who likes to photograph visiting pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>While going through dried butterflies collected in South Florida, Andrew Warren, senior collections manager for the University of Florida&#8217;s McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity found five unidentified specimens of the pink-spot sulphur, previously thought to live only in Cuba and some islands of the Bahamas. The specimens, taken between 1951 and 1985, had been intermixed with a bunch of samples of a similar species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously thought to live only in Cuba and some islands of the Bahamas, the pink-spot sulphur butterfly has now been spotted in South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,76,215],"class_list":["post-15818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals","tag-environment-2","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}