So cool! There is nothing prettier than a monarch chrysalis. I love how you got an action shot of the first guy in the process, and that 2nd one looks like he is going to eclose in the next 24 hrs!

Great! The chrysalides look yellow on my computer, but I assume it's the picture, not the chrysalides.

Congratulations!

Sherry

It's the picture...other than the first photo (below) I didn't use a flash because I thought it might hurt the butterflies in the chrysalises.

There is actually a caterpillar j-hooking behind a chrysalis, so...the far left is 2 individuals not 1 hybrid!!

Here the chrysalises are green...I love that jade color!

Way to go and congratulations on your little family of jewels!!! Oh, I do hope one of your beauties visits my garden on the way north! With the cool wet spring here, all of my milkweed is still looking fresh. So far, I haven't been covered over with the sucking insects that adore the milkweed plants. I hope my luck holds for a while.

... Mary

I have gotten very adept at smashing the red and orange sucking bugs with my fingers!
This photo makes me want to go buy some jade!

you know they make chrysalis necklaces ..... and you smash those aphids with your fingers?????