{"id":10310,"date":"2012-04-27T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2012-04-27T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T04:58:54","slug":"a-cocoon-and-a-chrysalis-are-not-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/a-cocoon-and-a-chrysalis-are-not-the-same-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cocoon and a Chrysalis are Not the Same Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cocoon-chrysalis-myth-fact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10311\" title=\"cocoon-chrysalis-myth-fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cocoon-chrysalis-myth-fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cocoon-chrysalis-myth-fact.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cocoon-chrysalis-myth-fact-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myth: a cocoon and a chrysalis are the same thing.\u00a0 In fact, the chrysalis is a butterfly pupa, which is a hard skin which appears after the caterpillar\u2019s final shedding of its skin when it\u2019s attached to a leaf via a silk pad spun by the caterpillar.\u00a0 A cocoon is just a constructed silk casing used by moths and certain other types of insects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/caterpillars-melt-almost-completely-before-growing-into-butterflies-in-the-chrysalis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources and other interesting moth and butterfly facts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: a cocoon and a chrysalis are the same thing.\u00a0 In fact, the chrysalis is a butterfly pupa, which is a hard skin which appears after the caterpillar\u2019s final shedding of its skin when it\u2019s attached to a leaf via a silk pad spun by the caterpillar.\u00a0 A cocoon is just a constructed silk casing used by moths and certain [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2480,267,1615,1555,2477],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-cocoon-vs-chrysalis","tag-facts","tag-myths","tag-quick-fact","tag-quick-myth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10312,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions\/10312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}