While removing the protective wire cover from my unsuccessful lone cauliflower plant, look what I found! Another chrysalis! After spotting the last one way back on August 4th, I'm surprised to see this one so late in the season on October 7th. (This is the first year I've noticed one at all, and I was uninformed about the multi-generational aspects of the process until finding this link.)
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Yeah, the generations are interesting--I always thought, also, that it was one generation that migrated to Mexico, but it isn't, either.
I felt silly discovering all the things I didn't know about Monarchs that many schoolchildren could probably tell me. Not too late to open my own "home school" for myself I suppose :)
What an awesome find! I hope it survives.
Me too! The cool temps seem to really slow the process, I checked again today (Oct. 18th), and it looks pretty much the same :(
Wow, what a beautiful pic! It looks like a xmas ornament. :)
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Hey, you're right! That would be a wicked cool ornament, too :)
LOL, the garden IS a home school!
You're right about that! Finally on the 25th I found the chrysalis was gone...hopefully due to completion of the metamorphasis and not some unfortunate accident.
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