{"id":50407,"date":"2025-11-17T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50407\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:01:13","slug":"junonia-found-on-captiva-sanibel-captiva-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50407\/","title":{"rendered":"Junonia found on Captiva &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Lanigan, of New York City, New York, found a junonia on Nov. 9 at about 8:45 a.m. near Turner Beach on Captiva. She was walking in the water and the colors stuck out to her, so she reached down and picked up the shell. \u201cI didn\u2019t even want to say it out loud because I didn\u2019t believe it could be true, and my mom said, \u2018Oh my gosh, you found a junonia!\u201d Lanigan said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it \u2014 it was so exciting for all of us!\u201d She added that her parents live on Captiva and she has been coming to the island since she was a baby. Lanigan is an avid sheller, as is her whole family. \u201cI\u2019ve found many amazing shells, but never a junonia,\u201d she said. \u201cCaptiva is my happy place, and it was so special to find that.\u201d To report a shell find, contact 239-472-1587 or trepecki@breezenewspapers.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tara Lanigan, of New York City, New York, found a junonia on Nov. 9 at about 8:45 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-50407","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\/50407","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=50407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}