{"id":20014,"date":"2025-09-09T05:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20014"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:13:23","slug":"top-10-most-sighted-butterflies-in-2025s-big-butterfly-count-in-pictures-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=20014","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 most-sighted butterflies in 2025\u2019s Big Butterfly Count \u2013 in pictures | Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"gallery__caption__title\">7. Speckled wood: 53,423 sightings<\/h2>\n<p>The number of speckled wood butterflies, with their distinctive yellow specks, has seen a similar number of sightings compared with last year, but has seen a decrease in the overall population by 35% in the past 15 years. Unlike most other butterflies, the speckled wood does not feed on flowers but on honeydew from trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gallery__credit\" itemprop=\"author\">Photograph: Butterfly Conservation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7. Speckled wood: 53,423 sightings The number of speckled wood butterflies, with their distinctive yellow specks, has seen a similar number of sightings compared with last year, but has seen a decrease in the overall population by 35% in the past 15 years. Unlike most other butterflies, the speckled wood does not feed on flowers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[6972,1285,2716,2711,7993,872,12298,3168,1168],"class_list":{"0":"post-20014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-2025s","9":"tag-big","10":"tag-butterflies","11":"tag-butterfly","12":"tag-count","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-mostsighted","15":"tag-pictures","16":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}