{"id":180,"date":"2014-09-10T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/uncategorized\/schlachtensee-caterpillar-wake\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T17:38:00","slug":"schlachtensee-caterpillar-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/2014\/09\/schlachtensee-caterpillar-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Schlachtensee Caterpillar Wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On one of my last afternoons in Berlin, we went to Schlachtensee to wade around the lake. There, in one of its shady shallows, I found a bright yellow caterpillar in the water; a small <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buff-tip\">Buff-tip<\/a> (Phalera bucephala) that looked like it had already tragically drowned and sunk to the bottom of the lake. I didn&#8217;t know how long it had been submerged under water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arielst0rm7\/15095076316\" title=\"P8302541 by debbie ding, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3902\/15095076316_bb5e2150eb_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"P8302541\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In any case, after thinking about it for a while, I fished the caterpillar out of the water and made a little shrine for it on the edge of the lake. A small german child came over to look at it, and poured a little of the grainy (and highly absorbent) sand over it. Later when Lecky and Chris came back from their swim I was going to show them the caterpillar shrine, and it was then that I realised the caterpillar had moved away from its original position where I had laid it down to rest. I poked it with a stick and it squirmed! The caterpillar had revived!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arielst0rm7\/15095084336\" title=\"P8302542 by debbie ding, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3869\/15095084336_58d86d1f2c_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"P8302542\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is after I had replaced it back on a leaf on a nearby bush.<\/p>\n<p>Next time you&#8217;re caterpillar-sitting your friend&#8217;s pet caterpillar and it has accidentally fallen into a moat for an undetermined period of time, don&#8217;t panic. Just take it out, let it dry out and maybe it will wriggle back to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one of my last afternoons in Berlin, we went to Schlachtensee to wade around the lake. There, in one of its shady shallows, I found a bright yellow caterpillar in the water; a small Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala) that looked like it had already tragically drowned and sunk to the bottom of the lake. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}