{"id":93918,"date":"2026-05-26T04:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-very-lonely-caterpillar-possibly-the-last-of-its-kind-has-died\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:27:30","slug":"a-very-lonely-caterpillar-possibly-the-last-of-its-kind-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-very-lonely-caterpillar-possibly-the-last-of-its-kind-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn\u2019t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/21\/climate\/a-very-lonely-caterpillar-the-sacramento-mountains-checkerspot-has-died.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn\u2019t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[10959,4445,6721,339,18282,2480,1249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}