Date: 07/19/2017

Number: 2

July 19 : Received two eggs.
July 20: Found another looking for mild weed.
July 23: Eggs from friend hatched to instar(4 days)
July 24: Found another egg
July 25: Found 1/8 -1/4 in caterpillar while looking for milkweed.
Did not separate, inexperience cost me. Down to two caterpillars.
July 26: molting and eating
July 27:
Aug 3: Ate an entire leaf
Aug 4: First went to top of enclosure, one found on July 25
Aug 5/6: Chrysalis forming
Aug 14-DarkeningChrysalis
Wings visible through darkened/transparent
Aug 15: First Butterfly to enclose 9:30 in the morning.
All well. Crumbled wings, still.
Aug 16: very fluttery, female, released in valley near Mississauga Border, near water. at 6:30 pm.
Aug 18: second chrysalis opens and butterfly, a male, encloses. This was a much quicker process. The chrysalis was half green and half black. But he came out fine. Not as energetic as the first. Released on the morning of the 19 th.

Toronto, ON

Latitude: 43.6 Longitude: -79.6

Observed by: Sue
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