After an obnoxiously long and cold winter, and after much patience (and sometimes doubt on our part), one of the butterflies has emerged from its chrysalis!
The chrysalises spent the winter in our shed, chillin'. In March we took them to Alli's preschool so the kids could observe them... if anything ever happened. I thought they might have been handled too rough to survive. For being so delicate looking, butterflies must be quite resilient in their chrysalises.
Alli's teacher called us this morning with the exciting news. We all went to the school right away to see the butterfly. Alli thought that it was so beautiful.
It was wonderful to see the black swallowtail butterfly after such a long wait.
Last August, we discovered four caterpillars on our parsley. Two formed chrysalises... the other two either made really well-hidden chrysalises or they were eaten by pigeons.
There is one more chrysalis left unopened in the container. It was formed a day or two behind this one. Stay tuned...
1 comments:
What a great story and I love the pics! Maybe we need some beautiful butterfly die cuts. What do you think? I am sure you can find some great inspiration somewhere!
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