Keep us posted and to be continued.

Nice! Thanks Mike Joe.

Thanks Mike, too! I gotta figure out how post pictures myself,
I have nine crystalis, and one that just stopped eating and went to top of box, looking for a place to hang!
I thought this small one that didn't move for nearly a day was a gonner, one with a killer grub, he started moving, I set him on a leaf and it eating like crazy!

My wife and 4 year old love doing it, Ive gone a few times its a fun little hunt weve got 40 plus hanging now had 4 butterflies so far

Holy cow that's a bunch, I would need a lot of weeds for forty, do you keep a half weed in water for them to eat?

How long does it take for them to go from egg to chrysalis?

I think it's 10-14 days, unless I read it wrong,you can barely see the wing pattern through the crystalis
I need to look at link again, someone put it up earlier in this post, maybe it 10-14 days in crystalis I forgot
Egg to fifth instar, shed skin fifth time, 10-14 days

My first swallowtail just emerged from it's chrysalis! So pretty. Nine monarch chrysalis, one hanging ready to drop it's skin

Very fun thread guys! Brings back memories from when I was a kid.

Thanks! I remember doing some at home on farm, and our teacher had one in class.
I think more swallowtail are ready, four left
Video taped a western tiger swallowtail on my purple cone flowers today, I filmed one time at two feet away from the butterfly!
I picked up a 3 day old and about 4 day old monarch catapiller today, I have 10 monarch in Chrysalis

Released my second eastern swallowtail today, man they don't mess around, they see open sky and gone!

Thanks for sharing the pictures and process.

No problem! I picked up three more small monarch catapillers tonight, it's addicting lol, hoping for more swallowtail too, got a new one hanging, and another ready to hang.
The one that didn't eat for a day is growing , that one is last of older ones, I think I have four-five new little ones.

Picture doesn't show the yellow on the black wings, looking at picture before posting you can see the yellow and shape of wings
The butterfly is 3-4' to the right of bball hoop

If they didn't zoom away fast I could get abetter picture, next time I'll have her film it

Our third eastern swallowtail hatched today, it took a while to dry out and fly away, she got some real good pictures of it

Two monarchs are nearly ready to emerge, the first one in Chrysalis is furthest along, they are orange n black now