{"id":2813,"date":"2014-05-07T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:52:00","slug":"blueberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2813 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?attachment_id=2791'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_4871.CD_-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2791\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2791'>\n\t\t\t\tFirst Noticed, newly emerged\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?attachment_id=2794'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_4873.CD_-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2794\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2794'>\n\t\t\t\tClimbing the second time\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?attachment_id=2795'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_4877.CD_-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2795\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2795'>\n\t\t\t\tDrying wings\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?attachment_id=2808'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Butterfly-on-hands-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?attachment_id=2809'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Butterfly-on-sleeve-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2809\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2809'>\n\t\t\t\tBlueberry playing on Megan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThis is my butterfly, Blueberry. She had just emerged from her overwinter nap when I discovered her. She is an Eastern Black Swallowtail.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned that they are very different from Monarchs. When they emerge they start to walk around, but Monarchs stay on their chrysalises until their wings dry. Yesterday, I watched my butterfly climbing up a stick and it fell on its wings! Then it got right back up again and started crawling up. It was not hurt at all! When <a title=\"my Monarch fell\" href=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?p=702\" target=\"_blank\">my Monarch fell<\/a>, she could not get back up again and her wings stayed shriveled up. She never could fly, but could flutter for a little distance. Eastern Black Swallowtails overwinter, while Monarchs fly to Mexico for the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a <a title=\"parasitic wasp\" href=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2288\" target=\"_blank\">parasitic wasp<\/a> will lay an egg inside the caterpillar. When the caterpillar forms its chrysalis, the wasp larva will eat the caterpillar and then come out of the caterpillar&#8217;s chrysalis. It is pretty disappointing since we were expecting a butterfly.\u00c2\u00a0 Monarchs never get wasps, I think that is because they eat milkweed which is poisonous to other animals.<\/p>\n<p>God made all the butterflies different and I am glad that he did!\u00c2\u00a0 I am looking forward to learning more about raising butterflies this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my butterfly, Blueberry. She had just emerged from her overwinter nap when I discovered her. She is an Eastern Black Swallowtail. I have learned that they are very different from Monarchs. When they emerge they start to walk around, but Monarchs stay on their chrysalises until their wings dry. Yesterday, I watched my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/?p=2813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blueberry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/audrey.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}