Here is the chrysalis (of the caterpillar I posted a picture of with the visible silk button) earlier this week:

Here is the butterfly today!

It looks just as a butterfly should. We plan to let it go tomorrow - and it can hardly wait, it did its best to escape while I took its picture!
It is beautiful! Can't wait to show Danielle. They make the painted lady butterflies look so plain, don't they? Monarchs are beautiful in each of their stages.
ReplyDeleteI know, it is so amazing how much they change and how much there is to how they look at each phase. I like how their bodies have all the white spots too.
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