Date: 10/10/2019

Number: 1

This Monarch hatched today 10-10-2019 from a protective habitat on my patio. I found the Chrysalis yesterday in a flower pot I was watering. It was floating! I grabbed it and dried it in the habitat last night. Not sure where it had come unattached from. Today it was dry and I could see even better the butterfly wings inside. I decided to take a safety pin and hang it, from the tiny bit of silk in the top of the Chrysalis. I attached it to the top of the habitat. After running errands today, I came home to this GORGEOUS and healthy Monarch!
Fly safe! Take care! Get outta Dayton before next week’s 30 degree night’s!
This is only my 2nd Monarch hatching! I look at the milkweed leaves and never see the caterpillars. I see the Chrysalis tho but missed this one and I probably knocked the Chrysalis off when I was chopping the shabby looking milkweed down. I am just so GLAD I saved it yesterday from drowning as it was floating in the water in the pot!! This Monarch hatching made my day!

Dayton, OH

Latitude: 39.8 Longitude: -84.2

Observed by: Barbara
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