{"id":2696,"date":"2014-09-18T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2017-07-01T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:25:04","slug":"metamorphosis-caterpillar-to-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/virginia-photographer\/metamorphosis-caterpillar-to-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis | Caterpillar to Butterfly &#8211; Hampton Roads Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0001.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0001.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0001.jpg\" width=\"3500\" height=\"2514\" \/><br \/>\nMetamorphosis of a caterpillar turning into a beautiful butterfly is an amazing thing to document. Meet the caterpillar who loves my fennel plant. Several caterpillars munched away at this licorice-smelling plant.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0002.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0002.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0002.jpg\" width=\"3500\" height=\"4109\" \/><br \/>\nOne day, I noticed the caterpillars were disappearing. Upon further inspection of the plant, I found two cocoons. I may have squealed out of excitement.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0003.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0003.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0003.jpg\" width=\"3500\" height=\"1805\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0005.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0005.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0005.jpg\" width=\"3500\" height=\"1362\" \/><br \/>\nI was amazed at how two tiny &#8220;strings&#8221; held this cocoon in place during wind and rain.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0004.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0004.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfter about a week, I noticed the cocoon was changing color. It was taking on a black color. I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before the butterfly would hatch out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0006.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0006.jpg\" width=\"3500\" height=\"3271\" \/><br \/>\nBy the next day, I had two butterflies. They didn&#8217;t hang around long, but I was glad I able to document this amazing life cycle.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0007.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0007.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMeet the Black Swallowtail \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0008.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0008.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0009.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0009.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0009.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2014-09-18_0010.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0010.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-18_0010.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metamorphosis of a caterpillar turning into a beautiful butterfly is an amazing thing to document. Meet the caterpillar who loves my fennel plant. Several caterpillars munched away at this licorice-smelling plant. One day, I noticed the caterpillars were disappearing. Upon further inspection of the plant, I found two cocoons. I may have squealed out of excitement. I was amazed at how two tiny &#8220;strings&#8221; held this cocoon in place during.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/virginia-photographer\/metamorphosis-caterpillar-to-butterfly\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[71,44,72,73,94],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscapenature","tag-blue-monarch-butterfly","tag-hampton-roads-photographer","tag-metamorphosis","tag-monarch-caterpillars","tag-nature-photographer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-18_0001.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DZQz-Hu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nataliekentphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}