{"id":36,"date":"2025-10-14T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:05:34","slug":"peacock-aglais-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/2025\/10\/14\/peacock-aglais-io\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock (Aglais io)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Peacock is one of Britain\u2019s most striking butterflies, its rich rusty-red wings adorned with four large, iridescent blue-and-black eyespots that give the species its name and serve as a startling defence against predators when the wings are suddenly flashed open. The underside, by contrast, is a dull, sombre blackish-brown, providing near-perfect camouflage when the butterfly rests with wings closed among dead leaves or in dark crevices. It\u2019s found almost everywhere \u2014 gardens, woodland edges, hedgerows, and parks \u2014 wherever nectar and its foodplant grow, and adults are frequent visitors to buddleia, ivy blossom, and other rich nectar sources. Its foodplant is common nettle (<em>Urtica dioica<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Female Peacocks lay large batches of eggs on the underside of young nettle leaves, and the caterpillars that emerge are gregarious, feeding communally in silk webs spun over the foodplant; they are black, speckled with tiny white dots, and covered in branching spines. As they mature, the caterpillars disperse before pupating. There is typically one generation a year, with newly emerged adults feeding up in late summer before hibernating over winter in hollow trees, sheds, or log piles, ready to fly again and breed in early spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peacock is one of Britain\u2019s most striking butterflies, its rich rusty-red wings adorned with four large, iridescent blue-and-black eyespots that give the species its name and serve as a startling defence against predators when the wings are suddenly flashed open. The underside, by contrast, is a dull, sombre blackish-brown, providing near-perfect camouflage when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vanessids","tag-hibernator","tag-nettle-feeders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/testing20261014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}