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26-SEP-2008

Unhappy Ending

Sadly, my monarch butterflies never emerged from their pupas. They turned black and kind of shriveled. I looked it up on the internet, and found out that they had been attacked when they were caterpillars by some kind of fly that laid eggs in them. The fly larvae hatched and killed the pupas. Gross. Maybe next year I'll get some butterflies.

Nikon Coolpix S50
1/40s f/3.7 at 11.0mm iso200 full exif

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clark langley30-Sep-2008 06:48
great shot though. Nice work Deb!!
anne 29-Sep-2008 18:48
Its like Alien of the bug world!! YUCK!!
Alli K. 29-Sep-2008 15:23
Okay, nasty x 2 for the day! I'm going to have to give you some things to take pictures of if you don't stop posting gross stuff! :)
John Buffin29-Sep-2008 00:37
Oh, that's too bad. That is kinda gross about the flies.
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