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RE: MONARCH & HYDRANGEA for WEDNESDAY WALK 🌸🦋🌸
Beautiful monarch and flower shots. Such a great contrast against the white flowers! I love Monarchs and always rear some from eggs collected in the spring from my butterfly weed. After sending a bunch out to find mates in the early spring and summer, I usually let nature take its course after that.
I had no idea that can be done! Wow! Thank you so much for visiting my Dear, I am happy you like them 🦋😊🦋
Oh, it is so interesting to watch the microscopic eggs become teeny caterpillars which grow at an alarming rate while feeding on the milkweed - and then to watch them shed their skins a final time revealing beautiful lime green chrysalides with gold spots before emerging a couple of weeks later as beautiful Monarchs! A butterfly doesn't make a chrysalis - it's inside beneath the caterpillar skin. It is intriguing to watch the whole process! I have learned so much!
Oh my goodness, that sounds so fascinating! I just found videos on YouTube about that. I am going to look for those eggs when I am on my walk next time. Thank you so much for shraing my Dear 🦋😍🦋
Better still. Plant doe milkweed and they will find you!!