Date: 10/02/2009

Number: 1

This morning I found a Monarch butterfly in my enclosed porch. Had she just come out of a chrysalis? Her markings were very pronounced and it was a female. She seemed to be drying her wings. I waited till she settled down and let her out, after taking a photograph. I recently brought in a ginger plant and a beautiberry into the porch but can't find any signs of a discarded chrysalis there or anywhere around. What could have happened?

Gainesville, FL

Latitude: 29.6 Longitude: -82.3

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