{"id":21447,"date":"2012-10-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=73d7145f0811d61c4eb4b243d0f85e52"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:29:37","slug":"monarch-butterfly-metamorphosis-part-one-changing-casings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/monarch-butterfly-metamorphosis-part-one-changing-casings\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis: Part One ~ Changing Casings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Monarch Butterfly’s metamorphosis is a journey through clear casings beginning with an egg. A tiny caterpillar carves a hole in a clear intricately etched dome capsule and exits while entering the hairy leafy landscape of its host plant Milkweed.<\/p>\n

The teeny caterpillar then makes a meal of the nutritious casing and begins chewing its way about the plant pausing to change skin four times, as it grows too big to be contained.<\/p>\n

The fifth and final change of its tight clear and black-stripped skin finds the caterpillar hanging and pulling up the curtain, so to speak, to what it has been nurturing within all along . . . a chrysalis is born to form. Within hours the outer clear casing hardens protecting the inner jade green cellular soup and templates that make up the new Monarch Butterfly chrysalis.<\/p>\n

Life is not still within this final casing. A complete metamorphosis is underway. A marvel to witness and joyous to mull over.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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To see and learn more about the Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis visit Flower Hill Farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Monarch Butterfly’s metamorphosis is a journey through clear casings beginning with an egg. A tiny caterpillar carves a hole in a clear intricately etched dome capsule and exits while entering the hairy leafy landscape of its host plant Milkweed. The teeny caterpillar then makes a meal of the nutritious casing and begins chewing its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2145585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[61,1699,181,182],"class_list":["post-21447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-butterflies","tag-caterpillars","tag-monarch-butterfly","tag-monarch-butterfly-metamorphosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447","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=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}