{"id":3467,"date":"2015-08-30T18:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2015-08-30T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:47:32","slug":"a-catapillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/a-catapillar\/","title":{"rendered":"A caterpillar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In creating our flowerbeds this year I insisted on leaving some milkweed growing in one bed. \"DSCF2508\"<\/a>Today, as we were digging out hostas to rearrange them, I was informed by my coworkers that caterpillars were eating those milkweeds. I got excited! Sure enough, it was a monarch caterpillar! (We only found one.)\"IMG_0786\"<\/a>But as you can see from the picture, the milkweed themselves were not looking good. They seemed to have a black mildew or fungus growing on them. I thought surely that isn’t good for the creature. Plus, we didn’t want that on all the other plants, and it was definitely spreading.<\/p>\n

First I took the little worm and put it into a container with his leaf. Then we pulled all the milkweed plants (roots stayed in the ground for next year). Then I pulled all the pods off the plants. I hope the seeds inside are mature enough. I’m going to let them dry, then I will release them into the wild — beside our new sound wall. I hope some of them will grow.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I carried the wee stripey fellow over to Cheryl’s house (doesn’t take it long to polish of a leaf, I had to get some more out of the garbage for him for the journey) and left him on a healthy looking plant.\"IMG_0791\"<\/a> I hope this caterpillar continues to eat and grow and make a lovely chrysalis, that it becomes a healthy butterfly so it can fly all the way to Mexico! (Perhaps it will stop over in California and visit my grandkids, too.)<\/p>\n

Learn more about caterpillars and butterflies: http:\/\/www.thebutterflysite.com\/life-cycle.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In creating our flowerbeds this year I insisted on leaving some milkweed growing in one bed. Today, as we were digging out hostas to rearrange them, I was informed by my coworkers that caterpillars were eating those milkweeds. I got excited! Sure enough, it was a monarch caterpillar! (We only found one.)But as you can … <\/p>\n

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