{"id":2195,"date":"2010-05-03T12:46:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2010-05-03T12:46:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:46:22","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2198\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-014.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-014-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Over the weekend we had 5 butterflies emerge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-014.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-012.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-012-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They&#8217;re still in their little mesh habitat. We&#8217;ll release them tomorrow when the nighttime temperatures are higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2197\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-013.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/legos-and-butterflies-013-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I couldn&#8217;t get a good photo through the mesh, so I crouched under their enclosure and snapped some photos through the clear plastic on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These are Painted Lady Butterflies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The caterpillars were fun to watch because they grew so quickly. The pupa stage was very dull until we transplanted them into their mesh habitat. I was holding the fabric on which they&#8217;d attached themselves and suddenly they were all gyrating violently. I nearly dropped them (as their defense mechanism hoped I would). I did NOT scream, as my pride as an old entomology student was at stake, but I felt a little bit like Indiana Jones around snakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Timothy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">loved<\/span> this activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend we had 5 butterflies emerge. They&#8217;re still in their little mesh habitat. We&#8217;ll release them tomorrow when the nighttime temperatures are higher. I couldn&#8217;t get a good photo through the mesh, so I crouched under their enclosure and snapped some photos through the clear plastic on the bottom. These are Painted Lady &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/butterflies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Butterflies!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}