nature controlling
urges within create change
metamorphosis
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I have been watching this Monarch Butterfly cocoon in its chrysalis stage of development for the past five days. I had chanced upon it on August 20
th attached to the under side of a Milkweed leaf. When finding it I decided to check on it each day in hopes that I could maybe get to see it emerge as a fully developed Monarch Butterfly. My first posting on this interesting find can be found
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Yesterday morning (25
th) it was very exciting to see that the casing of the cocoon had thinned to a transparency and I could see the actual Monarch Butterfly folded up within it! This is a picture that I hoped for and I was not disappointed!! Below is a photo of this same view and I have used the
poster edge filter from
Photoshop to give it a finer detail for viewing.
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I had taken these pictures around 9 am and decided to return around noon to check on its further development.