{"id":1890,"date":"2021-10-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2021-10-18T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:23:27","slug":"2021-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/2021-season\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244989631_10209002888625540_8610052675373784589_n-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1891\" width=\"285\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244989631_10209002888625540_8610052675373784589_n-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244989631_10209002888625540_8610052675373784589_n-122x162.jpeg 122w, https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/244989631_10209002888625540_8610052675373784589_n.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our 2021 season has come to an end here at Kaleidoscope Kisses Waystation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the cleanup is finally done and ready to go into storage. Dozens of plastics bins for eggs and tiny caterpillars as well as 8 net enclosures for instars 3, 4, and 5 have been scrubbed and sanitized for storage. It takes a lot of time and effort to make sure my babies are healthy, but it&#8217;s totally worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a stellar year here at KKW, nothing like we expected! Because the weather has been so goofy all spring and my milkweed got off to such a bad start, I was afraid that we wouldn&#8217;t get any butters at all. We weren&#8217;t seeing the usual swallowtails and skippers, either! Somehow, in spite of it all, they arrived 2-3 weeks earlier than usual. We never did see more than a few adults, but they left us a bounty of eggs. Of the eggs I collected, about 40% hatched. This is not unusual, because there are things than can go wrong. Actually, if they&#8217;d all hatched, I wouldn&#8217;t have had nearly enough milkweed to feed them. In the wild, there are around 5% more or less (depending on which expert you ask) that survive from egg to healthy butterfly. Of our eggs that hatched, we had 584 that were released in about a one month period! We had less than a 4% fatality rate, which occurred from a variety of causes. These are great numbers for us! We&#8217;re going to miss the funny caterpillars and beautiful butters, but are hopeful that next year they&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2021 season has come to an end here at Kaleidoscope Kisses Waystation. All of the cleanup is finally done<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-button read_more_btn_text\"><a class=\"read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/2021-season\/\">Read Now<span class=\"arrow_readm\"> &#x25BA;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1890\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalmonarchs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}