{"id":438,"date":"2008-02-22T20:27:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T20:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/02\/22\/bugs-bird-poop-disguise\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T20:30:33","slug":"bugs-bird-poop-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/02\/22\/bugs-bird-poop-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug&#8217;s &#8220;Bird Poop&#8221; Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fbugs-bird-poop-disguise%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"fulgerica\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2008\/02\/22\/bugs-bird-poop-disguise\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/080221-caterpillar-picture_big.jpg\" title=\"Bug\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bird Poop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Disguise\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/080221-caterpillar-picture_big.jpg\" alt=\"Bug\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bird Poop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Disguise\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This larval swallowtail butterfly&#8217;s clever disguise (left) is literally a load of crap.<\/p>\n<p>In its larval stages, the Asian swallowtail\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalso known as the Chinese or Japanese yellow swallowtail\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmimics the appearance of bird droppings to prevent predators from gobbling it up.<\/p>\n<p>In its last phase of development, the insect turns green (right) to blend into the leaves on which it lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/papiliolowi.jpg\" title=\"papiliolowi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/papiliolowi.jpg\" alt=\"papiliolowi.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2008\/02\/080221-caterpillar-picture.html\">National Geographic<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fbugs-bird-poop-disguise%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This larval swallowtail butterfly&#8217;s clever disguise (left) is literally a load of crap. In its larval stages, the Asian swallowtail\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalso known as the Chinese or Japanese yellow swallowtail\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmimics the appearance of bird droppings to prevent predators from gobbling it up. In its last phase of development, the insect turns green (right) to blend into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}