{"id":33748,"date":"2025-05-19T22:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33748"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:55:08","slug":"tent-caterpillars-strip-tree-in-abbey-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33748","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillars Strip Tree in Abbey Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025051901.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNick sent me photos of a tree in Abbey Meadow, near the children\u2019s play area, that has been stripped of its leaves by caterpillars. It is the only tree that has been attacked.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025051902c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSilken sheets are visible between twigs, with many caterpillars living inside. They leave their protective tents to feed and return afterward.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025051903b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe trees trunks are also surrounded in silk. Here is one caterpillar outside the silk, and inside \u2014 near the trunk \u2014 a pupa within its cocoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick sent me photos of a tree in Abbey Meadow, near the children\u2019s play area, that has been stripped of its leaves by caterpillars. It is the only tree that has been attacked. Silken sheets are visible between twigs, with many caterpillars living inside. They leave their protective tents to feed and return afterward. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}