{"id":6668,"date":"2017-05-08T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:53:30","slug":"so-tiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/so-tiny\/","title":{"rendered":"So Tiny…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last post was “so fuzzy<\/a>,” and this one is “so tiny!”<\/p>\n

I went back out to check on the Eastern Black Swallowtail eggs<\/a> today and found a small caterpillar.<\/p>\n

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This evening I told the kids to go see if they could spot it and my daughter found one that was even smaller!<\/p>\n

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I honestly thought I had spotted the caterpillar that was just a day or so old… but I was clearly mistaken.\u00a0 My caterpillar had to have been at least a couple days old and hers looked just like a tiny speck on the leaf that my aging eyes would certainly have missed.\u00a0 The ruler placement in the photo doesn’t do it justice – it really was only between 1\/8 and 1\/4 inch.\u00a0 But check out the difference between the one she spotted and the one I spotted.<\/p>\n

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While we were out there I spotted another one the size of the larger caterpillar.\u00a0 Clearly I missed the larger 2 for at least a day or so while I’ve been checking the parsley for any caterpillars.\u00a0 I checked my Golden Alexander<\/a> today too and nothing… though now I’m really doubting my eyes!\u00a0 At any rate… very happy to see evidence that our efforts at gardening for butterflies is paying off!\u00a0 More caterpillars means, hopefully, more butterflies!\u00a0 Or… well… I suppose it could mean more birds fed too.\u00a0 Either way giving nature a little boost and plant by plant gradually transforming our large, unproductive lawn back into a well functioning part of a healthy ecosystem.<\/p>\n

For more about the Eastern Black Swallowtail (including what the butterfly looks like) check out this post from last fall.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last post was “so fuzzy,” and this one is “so tiny!” I went back out to check on the Eastern Black Swallowtail eggs today and found a small caterpillar. This evening I told the kids to go see if they could spot it and my daughter found one that was even smaller! I honestly thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,443,922,923,1001,11],"tags":[482,1127,446,944,1133,15,294,832,293,1215,746],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-butterflies","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-macro-portraiture","category-nature","tag-animal","tag-black-swallowtail","tag-butterfly","tag-caterpillar","tag-eastern-black-swallowtail","tag-garden","tag-insect","tag-insects","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-swallowtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","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=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}