Fly Away, Butterfly!

Our Monarch butterflies emerged today from their chrysalises. We had been checking them every morning as we had heard that they tended to emerge in the early morning. Unfortunately, today was the first day we forgot. When we did remember, it was close to lunch time, and they had obviously been out of their chrysalises for some time. We were all very excited to see the butterflies. They were so beautiful. I took some pictures before we opened the mesh container to let them go. I was hoping that Caleb could hold one or that we could get some good shots of them on our plants before they flew off. But they flew off as soon as they were released.

We are going to have to try taking care of chrysalises again the future. It was something we were all interested in.