{"id":653,"date":"2013-10-10T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:15:35","slug":"have-you-seen-any-of-these-caterpillars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/have-you-seen-any-of-these-caterpillars\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen Any Of These Caterpillars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/caterpillar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-654\" alt=\"caterpillar\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/caterpillar.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[PHOTO CREDIT: BRENDA DEROCHE &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/do-something\/contests-winners\/annual-contest\/?src=hpbox\">CWF PHOTO CONTEST<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>They are called wooly bear caterpillars and this fall my family and I are seeing a lot of them &#8211; mostly on driveways and roads.<\/p>\n<p>They are the larval stage of the Isabella moth and feed mainly on low-growing wild herbaceous plants.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said that the colour of wooly bears can predict winter &#8211; if there is a lot of black on them that means the winter is going to be a rough one!<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m not sure how true this is. These caterpillars shed their skin (molt) several times and each molt results in a change in colour; also younger caterpillars tend to have more brown on them than older caterpillars!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">[PHOTO CREDIT: BRENDA DEROCHE &#8211; CWF PHOTO CONTEST] They are called wooly bear caterpillars and this fall my family and I are seeing a lot of them &#8211; mostly on&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[433,263,264],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-caterpillar","tag-wooly-bear","tag-wooly-bear-caterpillar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}