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Judi has released scores of Monarchs over the last couple of months. Here's a crowd of caterpillars devouring a milkweed (remember you can click on any of these pictures to see a large version):



Some of the favorite places for the caterpillars to forms chrysalises are the roofs of the mesh enclosures that Judi uses to protect them:



When chrysalises can't be left in their original locations, for whatever reason, they are transferred to skewers, and the butterflies emerge there, too:



Four newly emerged Monarchs hanging in a row:



And finally, I like this picture of a male Monarch (look on the lower wings -- see that black dot in the veining on each side? That's how you know it's male) on Judi's rainbow jammies:

Labels: Butterflies