{"id":52981,"date":"2018-01-22T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/?p=52981"},"modified":"2023-06-24T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T08:55:54","slug":"painted-jezebel-courtship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/2018\/01\/22\/painted-jezebel-courtship\/","title":{"rendered":"PAINTED JEZEBEL \u2013 COURTSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52982\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52982\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Jezebel Courtship\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing-532x532.jpg 532w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing-266x266.jpg 266w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-1-LeongTziMing-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Jezebel Courtship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was a simmering day in the mangroves, and a female Painted Jezebel (<em>Delias hyparete<\/em>, family Pieridae) was quenching her thirst at the flowers of Teruntum Merah (<em>Lumnitzera littorea<\/em>). Her wings were wide open and abdomen arched, as she sipped the sweet nectar, in full view of a visibly excited male (above, below). <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52983\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-2-LeongTziMing.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52983\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-2-LeongTziMing.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Jezebel Courtship\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-2-LeongTziMing.jpg 590w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-2-LeongTziMing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Painted-Jezebel-2-LeongTziMing-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Jezebel Courtship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs the male fluttered all over the female, his heart must have been fluttering too. Occasionally, his wings would even brush against hers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA video clip of this brief, but rarely observed courtship may be previewed here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"590\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dx2DkMNvurI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as the female flew off, the male followed in hot pursuit. They soared and spiraled towards the treetops, in search of more privacy for their secret union, far away from my prying eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Leong Tzi Ming<\/strong><br \/>\nSingapore<br \/>\n12th January 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was a simmering day in the mangroves, and a female Painted Jezebel (Delias hyparete, family Pieridae) was quenching her thirst at the flowers of Teruntum Merah (Lumnitzera littorea). Her wings were wide open and abdomen arched, as she sipped the sweet nectar, in full view of a visibly excited male (above, below). \u201cAs the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":52982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[536,98],"tags":[426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/besgroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}