{"id":4331,"date":"2022-06-20T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2022-06-20T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:28:08","slug":"what-happens-when-a-monarch-skips-a-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/what-happens-when-a-monarch-skips-a-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a monarch skips a meal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Photo-Espace-pour-la-vie-Maxim-Larriv\u00e9e-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The monarch butterfly caterpillar has a voracious appetite. It feeds exclusively on its host plant, milkweed, which it devours at an astonishing clip. In less than two weeks, its weight increases 2,700-fold! But what happens when it doesn\u2019t get enough to eat?<\/p>\n<p>by Agathe Moreau,\u00a0<em>Mission Monarch<\/em>\u00a0Education coordinator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To read this article, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.espacepourlavie.ca\/blogue\/en\/what-happens-when-a-monarch-skip-a-meal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space for Life website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/the-importance-of-forests-for-the-monarch-butterflys-winter-survival\/\">The importance of forests for the monarch butterfly&#8217;s winter survival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/what-happened-to-the-monarch-caterpillars\/\">What happened to the monarch caterpillars?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/monarchs-don-t-much-care-for-heavy-metal\/\">Monarchs don\u2019t much care for heavy metal!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The monarch butterfly caterpillar has a voracious appetite. It feeds exclusively on its host plant, milkweed, which it devours at an astonishing clip. In less than two weeks, its weight increases 2,700-fold! But what happens when it doesn\u2019t get enough to eat? by Agathe Moreau,\u00a0Mission Monarch\u00a0Education coordinator &nbsp; To read this article, please visit&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/what-happens-when-a-monarch-skips-a-meal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happens when a monarch skips a meal?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4329,"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\/4331"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}