{"id":4151,"date":"2021-03-09T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2021-03-09T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T19:11:44","slug":"monarchs-know-how-to-take-care-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/monarchs-know-how-to-take-care-of-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs know how to take care of themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_9910_APDPc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"503\" \/><\/figure>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMonarchs are not immune to illnesses or parasites. In order to avoid overly high infection rates, females infected by a parasite lay their eggs on \u201cantiparasitic\u201d milkweed species, as though they were giving their young medicine.\r\n\r\nby Alessandro Dieni,\u00a0<em>Mission Monarch<\/em>\u00a0coordinator\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>To read this article, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.espacepourlavie.ca\/blogue\/en\/monarchs-know-how-take-care-themselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space for Life website.<\/a><\/em>\r\n\r\nMore articles:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/time-to-get-at-your-milkweed-seeds\/\">Time to get at your milkweed seeds!<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/getting-a-better-understanding-of-the-monarchs-spring-migration\/\">Getting a better understanding of the monarch\u2019s spring migration<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/monarchs-and-milkweed-a-complex-relationship\/\">Monarchs and milkweed, a complex relationship<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Monarchs are not immune to illnesses or parasites. In order to avoid overly high infection rates, females infected by a parasite lay their eggs on \u201cantiparasitic\u201d milkweed species, as though they were giving their young medicine. by Alessandro Dieni,\u00a0Mission Monarch\u00a0coordinator &nbsp; To read this article, please visit the\u00a0Space for Life website. More articles: Time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/monarchs-know-how-to-take-care-of-themselves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monarchs know how to take care of themselves<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}