{"id":16,"date":"2025-10-14T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:06:10","slug":"comma-polygonia-c-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/2025\/10\/14\/comma-polygonia-c-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Comma (Polygonia c-album)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Comma is one of Britain\u2019s most distinctive butterflies, instantly recognisable by its ragged, jagged-edged wings that make it look like a dead leaf when at rest \u2014 a superb piece of camouflage. The upper wings are a rich orange-brown mottled with darker patches, while the underside is a dull, mottled brown bearing a small white \u201ccomma\u201d or \u201cc\u201d mark, from which it gets its name. It favours woodland edges, gardens, and hedgerows, and is often seen basking on sunny paths or feeding on ripe fruit and ivy blossom in autumn. Its main foodplant is common nettle (<em>Urtica dioica<\/em>), though it also uses hop and elm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Female Commas lay their eggs singly on the upper surface of nettle leaves, and the caterpillars that hatch are unusual in appearance \u2014 dark brown-black with a large cream-white patch across the back half of the body, resembling a bird dropping, which helps protect them from predators. There are typically two generations a year, with adults from the summer brood feeding up before hibernating as adults over winter, tucked into woodpiles, tree hollows, or dense vegetation, ready to emerge on the first warm days of spring to breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comma is one of Britain\u2019s most distinctive butterflies, instantly recognisable by its ragged, jagged-edged wings that make it look like a dead leaf when at rest \u2014 a superb piece of camouflage. The upper wings are a rich orange-brown mottled with darker patches, while the underside is a dull, mottled brown bearing a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,4,3],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vanessids","tag-hibernator","tag-nettle-feeders","tag-vanessids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}