It's a girl! I released her early afternoon...she flew directly to the Pear tree.
According to my blog and hand written notes, my Hatched and Released count is lacking:
#5 on June 25
#6 on June 26
#7 on July 2, released by Allie
#8, and 9 July 4
#10 & 11 July 5
#12 July 7
#13 July 9
I have 18 empty chrsalis', so obviously, somewhere along the line I did not keep track properly since I have dates of hatching and releasing only for 12 of them. Yes, I must get better at documenting.
The good news is, all of my "generation one" caterpillars have hatched! While I found two caterpillars dead, and one MIA (more on that in the next post) all the others went into their chrysalis', hatched successfully and are flying around now; I see Monarchs in my back yard and believe them to be "mine!"
The one that hatched today is the last of generation one. She made his chrysalis on a leaf. Cleaning the safehouse out, I dropped the stem and I know the chrysalis smacked hard on the floor, so I was wondering if I had caused damage...no I did not.
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