I was doing some reading online about how to know if a chrysalis is still alive because one of Lewis’ was black for a few days. The first two were black for an hour before they hatched so I was a little worried we had lost one.
As I was reading I also learned that butterflies need to be released within a week of hatching or else they will start mating and they will have way more caterpillar eggs than one can handle. That was very motivating to release them this morning, which was more sad than we anticipated.
Luckily, our neighbor has a pollination garden all along our driveway so that made it happier.
But look at his face…
Spirits are back up this afternoon because we noticed that the chrysalis we thought was dead HATCHED! Two more to go.
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