I feel blessed to have had a wonderful
Butterfly surprise this summer.
As I showed in an earlier post I was able to find 6
Monarch eggs on my milkweed I planted.
They all went to the top successfully and formed
Chrysalis. I am thankful that nothing
went wrong and no diseases appeared.
I discovered from my Facebook groups posts
many things can go wrong.
Having never done this, it was all a new
and exciting experience.
This is when five of them were up transforming.
As they get closer to emerging the chrysalis
becomes transparent. I have to add the
chrysalis are small, no longer than an inch.
So surprising how this butterfly
emerges from such a small space.
They hang upside down to dry their wings
and pump fluid into them.
It was such a wonderful thing for me... that I just
fell into accidentally. I look forward to doing it
next year and helping in the migration. I read that
if left in the wild there is only a 10% chance in
survival from predators. Then in the migration there is
more risk in them successfully making it to Mexico
Apparently they are killed primarily by cars.
I am very hopeful mine will make it to Mexico...
Look at this beautiful male #1. Notice the
two black dots in the orange
by the tail of his body which
indicate he is a male.
This one a female #2.
In all 2 males and 4 females emerged.
All healthy with no deformities.
If felt amazingly special to hold a
butterfly in my hand!!!
Their legs feel like they have little
suction cups and they
kind of grip on to you.
Male #2 was in a big hurry to go and flew up into
my tree quickly. This being the only picture
I got of him.
Farewell beauties. I hope you make it to Mexico.
I think they will make an appearance in my
pottery in the future.
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