Date: 10/05/2015

Number: 1

The next of the butterflies raised from my backyard caterpillars eclosed yesterday and turned out to be a girl. She spent 15 days inside her chrysalis and managed to time her emergence with the end of the cold and rainy weather we've been getting. I was able to release her over lunch break today to the tune of sunny skies and almost 70F. She was eager to fly off and is carrying Monarch Watch tag # TMX 226.

Unfortunately, the next chrysalis that was due to eclose did not make it and "hatched" a tachinid fly larva instead of a butterfly. I still have a dozen more though, most of which should eclose by next weekend.

Boone, NC

Latitude: 36.2 Longitude: -81.7

Observed by: Annkatrin
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