{"id":19516,"date":"2012-08-15T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9c32cce9b5cdf6802d5f0294b60ed862"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:28:16","slug":"black-swallowtail-butterfly-metamorphosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/black-swallowtail-butterfly-metamorphosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Swallowtail Butterfly Metamorphosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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A striking male Black Swallowtail . . . the first of its kind to emerge in my barn studio last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I was lucky early May to see this female attaching an egg to a Bishop’s weed leaf along the garden path. She may well have overwintered here in her pupa state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After she flies away I discover this egg!<\/p>\n

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Enjoying her first meal.<\/p>\n

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Second or third instar.<\/p>\n

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Final caterpillar molt.<\/p>\n

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Releasing a perfect female . . . perhaps she will meet up with the male (below) out in the gardens enjoying the milkweed. This is only the second Black Swallowtail I have had the privilege to raise.<\/p>\n

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If you would like to learn more about the life cycle of the Black Swallowtail check out my article over at<\/p>\n

Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens<\/p>\n

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A striking male Black Swallowtail . . . the first of its kind to emerge in my barn studio last year. I was lucky early May to see this female attaching an egg to a Bishop’s weed leaf along the garden path. She may well have overwintered here in her pupa state. After she flies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2145555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[193,1700,61,1699,1701],"class_list":["post-19516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-swallowtail","tag-black-swallowtail-butterfly","tag-butterflies","tag-caterpillars","tag-metamorphosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}