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07-AUG-2006 Cindy Flood

Evening before breakout- Look close and see head and wing spots

Wisconsin

Tomorrow my first butterfly will emerge from its chrysalis. I started out with 10 caterpillars eating all of my dill and then all of my parsley. I found two making their chrysalis. The first is now ready to emerge. You can see the spots on the wing and the butterfly head if you look closely. I hope it doesn’t happen over night. I don’t want to miss it. I watched it until the sunset and it got dark out, and it is still not moving inside the chrysalis.

One of the 10 before the dill was gone:




The new chrysalis:


Canon EOS 5D ,Canon TS-E90mm f/2.8
1/4s f/10.0 at 90.0mm iso500 with Flash and extension tubes full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Robin Reid08-Aug-2006 03:09
Terrific series. ... I hope you can catch it!
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