Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Birthin' Butterflies


I helped this butterfly be born. I had gone outside to take photos of flowers and noticed that the chrysalis I had on the passionvine was really dark, which indicates that the butterfly is ready to hatch. Unfortunately, the chrysalis was already in the shade for the day, so I picked up the stem the chrysalis was attached to and moved it to the sun. Not 10 minutes later and the butterfly was out and sunning off its wings.

2 comments:

Bond said...

I really like this picture. And the story makes me happy :-)

Dani said...

although the picture is of an evil butterfly... it's kind of cool. Why does the sun thing make a different in "birthin" butterflies"