{"id":4909,"date":"2011-09-20T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:00:48","slug":"butterfly-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/butterfly-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Queen chrysalis and Queen caterpillar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110920-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>I may have mistakenly <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/relocating-a-queen\/\" target=\"_blank\">relocated a Queen caterpillar<\/a><\/strong> the other day. I thought it was looking for food (my Milkweed had been devoured) but my friend Laura M. told me it might just have been ready to morph. If that&#8217;s the case, the caterpillar is probably hunkered down on the new plant. I couldn&#8217;t find it the other day but will look harder the next time I walk by his new home.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230;.I decided to look for two new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ag.arizona.edu\/pima\/gardening\/aridplants\/Asclepias_subulata.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milkweed<\/a><\/strong> plants and found some healthy 5 gallon specimens at Black Mountain Nursery (Dynamite very near Tatum). As I was getting ready to plant them, I found quite a surprise! One plant has a chrysalis and the other had a caterpillar&#8230;both Queens. Yipee! These aren&#8217;t the greatest of photos but they will do as a start to documenting their progress. From now on, I&#8217;ll use my SLR to get some good detail. My butterfly education continues! Thanks again, Laura \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have mistakenly relocated a Queen caterpillar the other day. I thought it was looking for food (my Milkweed had been devoured) but my friend Laura M. told me it might just have been ready to morph. If that&#8217;s the case, the caterpillar is probably hunkered down on the new plant. I couldn&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,29,28,7,57],"tags":[851,850,844,260,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4917,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}