{"id":1759,"date":"2017-04-03T13:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2017-04-03T13:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:30:51","slug":"monarchs-on-the-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/monarchs-on-the-mississippi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs on the Mississippi River!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff8000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Bellevue State Park Butterfly Sanctuary<\/span> <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/greatriver.com\/monarch_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"135\" align=\"left\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Bellevue State Park, near Bellevue, Iowa, just south of Dubuque, is located atop a 300-foot high limestone bluff with panoramic views of the Mississippi River valley and Lock &amp; Dam 12. It also shelters the largest <i>Butterfly Garden<\/i> in Iowa.<\/h5>\n<p>The <strong><i>Garden Sanctuary for Butterflies<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0near the\u00a0<span class=\"newsheaderbold\">South Bluff Nature Center<\/span>\u00a0in the Nelson Unit contains a variety of interesting displays on the plants, animals and geology of Bellevue State Park.<\/p>\n<p>. This unique area contains over one hundred separate plots, each featuring plants which provide food and habitat for butterflies. A network of pathways allows visitors to walk through the garden and see a wide variety of butterflies as well as enjoy the beautiful array of flowers and the pond in the center. For more information visit the website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadnr.gov\/Destinations\/WatchableWildlife\/ButterflyGardenatBellevue.aspx\">Butterfly Garden.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greatriver.com\/catp.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, butterflies found in Iowa are either in the process of migration or are completing one of the various stages of their life cycle. Approximately 60 species of butterfly can be expected to make their appearance at the Butterfly Garden each year. <strong>Host plants for butterflies include wild aster, ragweed, goldenrod, lamb&#8217;s-quarters, daisy fleabane, milkweed, cottonwoods, wild cherry, hackberry and willows.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Bellevue State Park Butterfly Sanctuary Bellevue State Park, near Bellevue, Iowa, just south of Dubuque, is located atop a 300-foot high limestone bluff with panoramic views of the Mississippi River valley and Lock &amp; Dam 12. It also shelters the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/monarchs-on-the-mississippi-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,160,79,167,168,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-monarchs-migrate-augustseptember","category-questions-questions","category-tourismfall-color","category-travel-mexico","category-uncategorized","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}