The chrysalis on the left held a developing monarch butterfly. Note the horizontal yellow beads along the upper portion and the pale green marks on the right upper chrysalis. The microscopic image at 40X shows what this area looked like after the butterfly left. The yellow pigment now forms a line across the lower micrographContinue reading “Through the Looking Glass”
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Wings with Dreams
Yesterday morning the chrysalises were green with shiny yellow beads across the top. Yesterday afternoon each chrysalis became dark, then transparent, and a short time later these marvelous monarch emerged leaving the clear chrysalis remnants behind. Not long after, they took to flight to eventually breed and lay eggs and continue the marvelous cycle ofContinue reading “Wings with Dreams”
Wings in Waiting
A neighbor summonsed us to a severely-eaten milkweed plant where two small monarch caterpillars nimbly nibbled away at remaining stalks of the plant. Others had devoured all of the leaves, and then each had crawled off to nearby shrubs to form a chrysalis, from which they will emerge with wings in 10-14 days as theContinue reading “Wings in Waiting”
Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings 