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Hey guys. I sure missed being in here with everyone and I know I have a lot of catching up to do which hopefully I can. I have been doing a little moonlighting work at night and have not had a minute to spare to do anything fun on the computer. So I am at my real job now cheating by writing this but wanted to say hi and I also have a question.
I have been very fortunate so far in my butterfly raising. I had an awesome 10 for 10 on my Monarch raising and releasing. Then I had the Queens after that. I had about 15 Queen cats and they all made it to the chrysalis stage. The only one that did not survive was one that another cat decided to munch on for some strange reason. But what is really strange to me is that while some of the chrysalids looked just like the Monarch except smaller, some would turn a pinkish/opaque type color very soon after the cat pupated. I had about 5 green chrysalids and the rest were this other color. I just knew that meant they were not viable but could not understand how they would die so soon after going into the chrysalid. Anyhoo, so I watched my green ones change into looking like the BF and enjoyed them coming out and setting them free. After the green ones were all gone then I noticed some of the pink ones turning dark. Sure enough out came beautiful Queen butterflies, just as perfect as they could be. By the end of this which was yesterday, every one of the Queens had eclosed and were perfect and released with much relief by me. I have looked everywhere on the Inet and cannot seem to find anything that shows a chrysalid any color other than green. If anyone has any idea as to what was going on with this I would greatly appreciate it. I am just so thankful I did not get rid of the ones I thought were nonviable or I would have lost a lot of beautiful butterflies. Thanks guys and again I missed ya'll and as always appreciate any help you can give me. Sorry this was so long.
Leslie
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