saved some chrysalises from certain doom

[thez_yo]

One's good and ready...the other had to get plucked down in pre-chrysalis form because he's stil got to work on making himself all hard and green..

...they have golden spots:

 

[lizasaur]

Ah, that's so awesome Z

 

[swords]

Will those be Luna / Saturniid moths?

 

[thez_yo]

It sorta looks like they wanna be monarch butterflies..

 

[lizasaur]

Monarchs would be my guess, although there's a species of caterpillar/butterfly that closely resembles them.

 

[swords]

The cocoon was green so that's where I got that idea.

I don't know moths & butterflies too much LOL

 

[amphirion]

yup. monarch is correcto.

 

[larry]

awesome, take lots of pics when they emerge.

 

[thez_yo]

updates: they're coming out any day now, this is the bigger and further along of the two (I've moved them outside so they have more room) --

 

[Nepfreak]

So did the one lying on the ground pupate? Usually they don't unless they're hanging!

 

[thez_yo]

The poor little guy looked bad and ended up just turning on the bottom of the container and I hung it up with some string - shed its skin and got some perlite embedded in the chrysalis "shell", but I think it'll come out OK

 

[Adam]

I don't mean to worry you, but yearly I raise about 80 Monarchs, and whenever my Chrysalis turns pearl color they end up dying... It mainly is green then clear(orange and black)

 

[thez_yo]

Interesting, well...I guess I'll see then in a couple days now won't I.

 

[Adam]

Probably. Good luck!

 

[thez_yo]

One survived, the one in the pic did end up perishing:

Yes, that is a sibuXTM it's perching on

 

[Brokken]

Nice!

 

[lizasaur]

So they both hatched, but one died? Aw well- atleast you saved one

 

[swords]

...just then one of Larry's ghost mantids creeps over and snatches it up!




Very nice we have milkweeds everywhere here and lots of Monarchs.

 

[larry]

While I take pics of the massacre

 

[thez_yo]

So they both hatched, but one died? Aw well- atleast you saved one

Nope, one just never emerged from its chrysalis. Sad, but at least I got one!

While I take pics of the massacre

Those would still be cute pictures!