{"id":1619,"date":"2015-08-12T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T00:41:11","slug":"caterpillar-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/caterpillar-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_butterfly#\/media\/File:Monarch_Butterfly_Danaus_plexippus_Vertical_Caterpillar_2000px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/28\/Monarch_Butterfly_Danaus_plexippus_Vertical_Caterpillar_2000px.jpg\/220px-Monarch_Butterfly_Danaus_plexippus_Vertical_Caterpillar_2000px.jpg\" alt=\"Monarch caterpillar\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dill is winning right now, with a straight flush of all the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papilio_polyxenes\">black swallowtail<\/a> instars on a single plant.<\/p>\n<p>The milkweed is catching up, though. Yesterday I found its ace: a huge <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_butterfly\">monarch<\/a> caterpillar. And then today, a much smaller one. The milkweed is infested by a giant colony of aphids that I&#8217;ve been dabbing with rubbing alcohol, but seems to be thriving anyway. <\/p>\n<p>In not-my-garden news, my neighbor cut down his giant <a href=\"https:\/\/web.extension.illinois.edu\/jsw\/eb284\/entry_6899\/\">honeysuckle<\/a> bushes, which makes me happy since I&#8217;ve been going to the park work days once a month and cutting down honeysuckle. This variety is invasive, and the less of it in my neighborhood, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dill is winning right now, with a straight flush of all the black swallowtail instars on a single plant. The milkweed is catching up, though. Yesterday I found its ace: a huge monarch caterpillar. And then today, a much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/caterpillar-poker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}