{"id":1001083,"date":"2008-04-07T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/04\/07\/baby-mourning-cloaks\/"},"modified":"2008-05-25T23:35:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T04:35:34","slug":"baby-mourning-cloaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/04\/07\/baby-mourning-cloaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Mourning Cloaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found several Mourning Cloak (<i>Nymphalis antiopa<\/i>) caterpillars and chrysalises on a small restroom strcuture in Mason park these last few days. This one is just getting started:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mourningcloakcaterpillar.jpg' alt='Black and red spiky caterpillar attached to wall' \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how long it takes one to spin a cocoon. This caterpillar and another were in exactly the same positions 18 hours later.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the finished cocoon from one who got started a little earlier. If it had been on a tree instead of a brick building I would have walked right past it without giving it a second look:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mourningcloakchrysalis.jpg' alt='Cocoon on brick' \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what it will look like when it emerges:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/mourningcloakadult.jpg' alt='Mourning Cloak butterfly with wings spread' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found several Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa) caterpillars and chrysalises on a small restroom strcuture in Mason park these last few days. This one is just getting started: I&#8217;m not sure how long it takes one to spin a cocoon. This caterpillar and another were in exactly the same positions 18 hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1001083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}