{"id":2629,"date":"2017-04-03T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2017-04-07T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T05:56:08","slug":"caterpillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/caterpillars\/","title":{"rendered":"caterpillars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A caterpillar in Kathy’s garden, a few weeks ago. They’ve been eating well at her place\u00a0— just like I was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kathy and Colleen give me periodic updates about the caterpillars and butterflies in their yards. It’s still butterfly season after all.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: Monarch butterflies only eat milkweed bushes. Colleen says a single caterpillar can decimate an entire milkweed bush in its quest to become a butterfly.<\/p>\n

I find their big appetites endearing. Watching them in action makes me want to plant milkweed bushes in the family garden. I want a butterfly as a neighbor — who wouldn’t? — but first I must be a good neighbor to the butterfly when it’s still a caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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There were severe storms in San Diego days after I took the photo above, and I wonder what happened to our\u00a0colorful friend. The caterpillar’s grip is strong, but so are the winds and rain.<\/p>\n

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Kathy and Colleen give me periodic updates about the caterpillars and butterflies in their yards. It’s still butterfly season after all. Fun fact: Monarch butterflies only eat milkweed bushes. Colleen says a single caterpillar can decimate an entire milkweed bush in its quest to become a butterfly. I find their big appetites endearing. Watching them … Continue reading “caterpillars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-Gp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}