{"id":4865,"date":"2011-09-14T16:10:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:06:21","slug":"relocating-a-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/relocating-a-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocating a Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110914.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Queen Butterfly caterpillar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110914-188x141.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>One part of my yard has an infestation of turf grubs which have probably come from the nearby golf course. I&#8217;ve tried every natural pesticide to no avail. What these grubs do is eat plant roots which doesn&#8217;t kill the plant but stunts its growth. For instance, I&#8217;ve tried for 5 years to establish some Milkweed (asclepias subulata) but the plants have barely grown in all that time. Even so, I typically end up with at least one caterpillar a year. This year there was only one bloom and very few offshoots so the caterpillar (a Queen) was out of food very quickly. I remembered seeing a good sized Milkweed plant along a path I hike every day so this morining, I decided to cut off the stem my caterpillar was on and relocate him\/her. It was about a mile and I&#8217;m sure everyone wondered what I was carrying. I found the plant and waited for the caterpillar to start moving and it did crawl over to the other plant. However, it seemed to know it wasn&#8217;t home because it moved back and forth, up and down as if to be smelling. I will go back tomorrow morning to see if its still there. I&#8217;m hopeful it makes the journey to becoming a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_%28butterfly%29\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Butterfly<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One part of my yard has an infestation of turf grubs which have probably come from the nearby golf course. I&#8217;ve tried every natural pesticide to no avail. What these grubs do is eat plant roots which doesn&#8217;t kill the plant but stunts its growth. For instance, I&#8217;ve tried for 5 years to establish some [&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":[844,843,184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5683,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/5683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}