{"id":971,"date":"2008-10-21T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T10:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-10-21\/971"},"modified":"2008-10-21T19:18:48","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T10:18:48","slug":"puripuri-chan-swallowtail-butterfly-from-start-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-10-21\/971","title":{"rendered":"PuriPuri-chan: Swallowtail Butterfly From Start to Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 2800 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nPuriPuri-chan, Today<\/span>\n( a Swallowtail Butterfly<\/a> )\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.2 + extension tubes — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 4000 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nPuriPuri-chan, Three Weeks Ago<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

A month or so ago, Arthur<\/a> gave us a\nblack,<\/span> blob-like, ugly little caterpillar perhaps half an inch long, and\ntold us how to take care of it. It didn't move for the first two days, so\nwhen Arthur told me that it was just preparing for the “next stage”, I figure<\/span> that would be “decomposition”.<\/p>\n\n

But it eventually started eating the orange leaves we put in (kindly\nprovided by Arthur), and went in cyclic fits of eating, rest, and the\noccasional little caterpillar poopy. Anthony named her “\u30d7\u30ea\u30d7\u30ea\u3061\u3083\u3093”,\n(puripuri-chan<\/i>)\nwhich, as far as Anthony is concerned, translates to something along the\nlines of “Little Wiggle-Butt.”<\/p>\n\n

After a week or so, she suddenly changed into the much-more-attractive\ngreen thing shown in the picture above, which I took<\/span> with a 50mm<\/span> f\/1.2 lens\nattached to some extension tubes. It was much<\/span> easier than using a reversed lens for macro\nwork<\/a>, but the quality I ended<\/span> up with is still pretty bad. I didn't<\/span> put\nmuch effort, but still, I'd have had<\/span> better quality with less effort had I\njust<\/span> used a real<\/span> macro lens. Must get one.<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, after a while, she climbed upside-down onto a branch,<\/span> hung on\nwith her bottom feet while suspending the top of her body with two thin\nthreads, and turned herself into a chrysalis<\/a>. Her outer<\/span> body just morphed into a cocoon<\/span>-like casing, in which she sat for almost two weeks.<\/p>\n\n

This morning at 9am she was still in there, but when I looked<\/span> again an\nhour and a half<\/span> later, she was out and stretching her wings.<\/p>\n\n

Anthony let her our when he got home from school. She jumped<\/span> on his\nshirt for a few<\/span> moments, then flew over to a tree.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

If I ever do get a decent macro lens, I'll try to get another\npuripuri-chan<\/i> and take a time<\/span>-lapse of her life....<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A month or so ago, Arthur gave us a black, blob-like, ugly little caterpillar perhaps half an inch long, and told us how to take care of it. It didn't move for the first two days, so when Arthur told me that it was just preparing for the \"next stage\", I figure that would be \"decomposition\".<\/p>

But it eventually started eating the orange leaves we put in (kindly provided by Arthur), and went in cyclic fits of eating, rest, and the occasional little caterpillar poopy. Anthony named her \"\u30d7\u30ea\u30d7\u30ea\u3061\u3083\u3093\", (puripuri-chan) which, as far as Anthony is concerned, translates to something [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}