{"id":2065,"date":"2014-06-25T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2015-08-02T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T13:37:04","slug":"feeding-them-fruit-will-help-butterflies-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/feeding-them-fruit-will-help-butterflies-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding them fruit will help butterflies live"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2066\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/feeding-them-fruit-will-help-butterflies-live\/butterflies-on-orange-slice\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2066\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Butterflies-on-orange-slice-600x413.jpg\" alt=\"Butterflies on orange slice\" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Butterflies-on-orange-slice-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Butterflies-on-orange-slice.jpg 710w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andreas Adelmann, flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Butterflies can only drink liquids \u2013 they don&#8217;t eat solid food. So, fill a plate with fruit that&#8217;s going bad. Put it inside another plate filled with water so ants can&#8217;t get to it. Every day, make cuts through the seals that develop so the butterflies can access the juice.<\/p>\n<p>Also put bright colored objects nearby. Butterflies see colors, especially red, purple, orange and yellow and are attracted by them.<\/p>\n<p>For the larvae, <em>&#8220;Plant some milkweed in your garden, and don&#8217;t pick off the caterpillars!&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspirationgreen.com\/fruit-for-the-butterflies.html\">Inspiration Green tells us<\/a>, and <em>&#8220;Black Swallowtail larvae eat the leaves of dill, parsley, carrot, and fennel. Painted lady larvae eat thistle leaves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pesticides are killing butterflies, but as most Monarch habitat occurs in agricultural environments, farmers and home gardeners can make a difference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butterflies can only drink liquids \u2013 they don&#8217;t eat solid food. So, fill a plate with fruit that&#8217;s going bad. Put it inside another plate filled with water so ants can&#8217;t get to it. Every day, make cuts through the seals that develop so the butterflies can access the juice. Also put bright colored objects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/feeding-them-fruit-will-help-butterflies-live\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeding them fruit will help butterflies live<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,183,67],"tags":[566,569,567,485,568],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-nature","category-plants-pests-rescue","tag-butterflies","tag-fruit","tag-gardens","tag-habitat","tag-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}