Ok, took lots of photos.. these were the best I got. One I got, just as it was almost out of the crysalis..






3 more to follow..

Just as it was finally ready to be set free..




Alex's hand was sitting next to it.. you can see it wasn't too small..

Ohhhh wow Meg - how beautiful! and what a great experience for your kids! Just beautiful...isn't it fascinating to SEE nature work?

It was so neat, seeing it emerge, and actually getting a photo of it! I actually had about 3 or 4 shots, but I wasn't steady with the camera, and ended up being too blurry to see it, except in the last one. At least it shows the head is still not fully out. It was several hours before it finally started to move it's wings like it wanted to fly. It just hung there for a good long while. It turned out to be a really pretty butterfly.

Meg

Gorgeous. Took me a while to get here to look at that but it was well worth the wait.

Is it a monarch? I don't really know butterflies all that well.

Sure is a pretty one! Glad you did not miss its reawakening!

Definitely not a butterfly expert, but monarchs are the NYS butterfly so I know I've seen them before I think they have white markings on the tips of their wings...kinda like polka dots almost- at least all those I've seen have had them - but I don't know if it's a 'requirement'

wow that is soooo kewl! thanks for sharing it with us! great pics too that is a BEAUTIFUL flutterby!

Hey Miss Jamie... I sent you a thank you in the other thread. I also dropped something in the mail for you today, so be on the lookout!

Nope, not a monarch.. this is a monarch (I borrowed this photo, uploaded to my photobucket, but it's NOT mine!)


This is the pic I took today of our variegated fritillary..


See the difference in color & markings?

Meg

Yep. Seeing the actual monarch, I know the other isn't. Haven't seen one of those in a while, I guess.

I got some pictures of one of those!