{"id":6528,"date":"2016-07-12T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6528"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:15:38","slug":"a-very-tiny-caterpillar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/a-very-tiny-caterpillar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Tiny Caterpillar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw our first egg hatch today and I was lucky enough to have my camera nearby to capture some video footage.\u00a0 I just wish I&#8217;d had the lighting a bit better for the first 2 clips.\u00a0 Anyway, we threw together a video with some fun facts that might be useful for a classroom studying Monarchs or the butterfly life cycle.<\/p>\n<p>First a couple photos:<\/p>\n<p>This is what the egg looks like just before the caterpillar emerges&#8230; you can start to see the tiny caterpillar&#8217;s black head through the translucent shell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_8306T.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_8246.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get the characteristic yellow and black stripes for a couple of days.\u00a0 It begins it&#8217;s life by eating the eggshell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_8279.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are teeny when they emerge&#8230; only between 1\/8&#8243; and 1\/4&#8243; long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_8301.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then a video showing the first few minutes of a Monarch caterpillar&#8217;s life!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monarch Caterpillar - newly emerged\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKIAc2bfDsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw our first egg hatch today and I was lucky enough to have my camera nearby to capture some video footage.\u00a0 I just wish I&#8217;d had the lighting a bit better for the first 2 clips.\u00a0 Anyway, we threw together a video with some fun facts that might be useful for a classroom studying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[922,923,1001,300],"tags":[1096,446,944,1013,1097,294,293,447,1215],"class_list":["post-6528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-portraiture","tag-bring-back-the-monarch-2","tag-butterfly","tag-caterpillar","tag-egg","tag-hatch","tag-insect","tag-macro","tag-monarch","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6540,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6528\/revisions\/6540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}