{"id":11997,"date":"2020-05-02T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11997"},"modified":"2020-05-05T09:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:59:52","slug":"fly-inside-a-monarch-swarm-in-tiny-drone-disguised-as-a-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/fly-inside-a-monarch-swarm-in-tiny-drone-disguised-as-a-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly inside a Monarch swarm in tiny drone disguised as a hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Days of Miracles and Wonder, part 3,293&#8230; &#x1f633;&#x1f681;&#x1f98b;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch a Breathtaking Monarch Butterfly Swarm\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWOySU_hAz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kottke <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/04\/watch-a-monarch-butterfly-swarm-filmed-by-a-drone-disguised-as-a-hummingbird\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>For an upcoming episode of a show called&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/spy-in-the-wild-about\/14810\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spy in the Wild<\/a>, PBS\u2019s Nature used a tiny drone disguised as a hummingbird to capture footage of a swarm of&nbsp;<em>half a billion<\/em>&nbsp;monarch butterflies as they overwinter in Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fae8b35e-ed09-48ae-aaa2-e3e3e1314710.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12005\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course I can&#8217;t let butterfly footage go by without gratuitously showing one of my favorite kid videos ever, captured of my then- (and now-) mysterious son Henry at age 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Get in my mouth, butterflies!\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0TAajwp0U8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2020\/04\/28\/hummingbird-spy-drone-captures-stunning-video-from-inside-a-monarch-butterfly-swarm\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days of Miracles and Wonder, part 3,293&#8230; &#x1f633;&#x1f681;&#x1f98b; Kottke writes, For an upcoming episode of a show called&nbsp;Spy in the Wild, PBS\u2019s Nature used a tiny drone disguised as a hummingbird to capture footage of a swarm of&nbsp;half a billion&nbsp;monarch butterflies as they overwinter in Mexico. And of course I can&#8217;t let butterfly footage go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12009,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions\/12009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}