{"id":346476,"date":"2026-07-20T21:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:19:32","slug":"junonia-found-on-sanibel-sanibel-captiva-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346476\/","title":{"rendered":"Junonia found on Sanibel &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aditya Pandey, of Anderson, South Carolina, and Shelly McClain, of Butlerville, Indiana, found a junonia on July 3 at Bowman\u2019s Beach on Sanibel. It was the couple\u2019s second time vacationing on Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast. \u201cWe visited Sanibel specifically for its reputation as the shelling capital of the world,\u201d Pandey said. After finding several other shells \u2014 including lettered olives and an alphabet cone \u2014 they discovered the junonia right before leaving. \u201cWe didn\u2019t realize its significance at first, but we were thrilled to later learn it is one of the rarest shells to find on Sanibel,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is certainly great motivation to return for more sea treasures.\u201d To report a shell find, contact 239-472-1587 or trepecki@breezenewspapers.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aditya Pandey, of Anderson, South Carolina, and Shelly McClain, of Butlerville, Indiana, found a junonia on July 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-346476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}