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Offline FlintWalker

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I wonder what this'll turn into?
« on: August 27, 2011, 02:37:07 pm »
Found this in my garden this morning. Gonna keep it at the house so my little boy can keep an eye on it.
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Offline jthompson1995

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2011, 02:45:35 pm »
That's a monarch chrysalis. Watch for it to turn black just before the butterfly emerges. We had a few as kids. One we could even take for walks around the neighborhood and it wouldn't fly away.
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2011, 02:55:59 pm »
Yup, that'll be a monarch.  Right before it hatches you'll actually be able to see the butterfly wings inside.  I used to catch a few caterpillars  every summer so the kids could watch them hatch.  Good memories.

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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2011, 03:30:59 pm »
Any idea how long it usually takes? 
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2011, 03:46:52 pm »
Just a few days, wait I looked it up.  10 days.  Go to http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/  They've got a video of one hatching.  Hope it's Ok to post that link?

George
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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2011, 10:25:27 pm »
 No problem George, as long as they aren't selling Butterflys. Thank goodness it's not Zombies. :o
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2011, 04:43:56 pm »
Do you have any milkweed plants near your garden?
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: I wonder what this'll turn into?
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2011, 06:08:26 pm »
I'd bet on it. ;D 

We used to have a terrarium I put the caterpillars and chrysalises I found into.  Usually they were monarchs.  But, one time on a church workday I found a huge moth cocoon on the outside of a window frame.  I carefully cut it off and then reglued it to a piece of wood in the terrarium.  The next year (long after we'd forgotten about it) it hatched into a beautiful cecropia moth (which has the largest wingspan of the American moths).  The girls took to to school for show and tell.  Then we let it go.

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