A caterpillar/butterfly is one of the most amazing/wonderful/beautiful creatures on this earth. For those of you who follow this blog if you look back a couple posts ago you will see the caterpillar we found and how it formed a chrysalis. Today it emerged as a butterfly. We will be releasing it when Bryson gets home from school. An interesting fact I didn't know was that the green chrysalis turns black before the butterfly is ready to come out. The chrysalis is really clear and you see the butterfly/caterpillar in the inside. (As a side note, I set my video camera up at about 11:00 on a tripod to try and catch the butterfly coming out. I didn't push record because I didn't know how soon the butterfly was going to come out so I figured I would check on it periodically. I checked on it around 12:00 and then went and folded laundry and took care of Maddy and Carley, I looked at it again around 1:30 and it had emerged from the chrysalis. I was bummed I didn't get it on video.) Bryson still has his butterfly that will come out in a couple of days.
Starting to turn black
You can see the orange of the wings inside the chrysalis.
BEAUTIFUL
Starting to turn black
You can see the orange of the wings inside the chrysalis.
BEAUTIFUL
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