{"id":5377,"date":"2016-02-09T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2016-02-09T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:35:20","slug":"caterpillars-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2016\/02\/09\/caterpillars-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillars & Butterflies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast spring, Lisa and I put together a butterfly garden. We saw some swallowtails, some rice papers, some blue waves, and a bunch of others. However we had tons and tons of monarchs who not only visited the flowers but laid eggs.<\/p>\n

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\nWe’ve had monarch caterpillars on our milkweed plants for\u00a0over a year and the most we had at once was seventeen in\u00a0December. The caterpillars seem to hangout for like ten days to two weeks. Then they go and find a safe place, form a “J” shape and within a few days they form into a chrysalis.<\/p>\n

\"catapillar\"
\nIn the summer it seems to take about two to three weeks for a chrysalis to hatch. You can tell a chrysalis is\u00a0about to hatch because it looses its green color and turns black and orange. Now that its winter the chrysalises take five to six weeks.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen ready a butterfly emerges. It happens pretty darn fast, within a few minutes, but then it takes two to three hours for the caterpillar to unfurl their wings and let them dry.
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\nIt’s been a delight having the caterpillars and butterflies around this past year and pretty darn cool that they are still here even though its winter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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