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Summary
Adult monarch butterflies look like this. That photo also shows the flowers of butterfly weed, which is a member of the milkweed family. Monarchs live on members of this family of plants. The plants contain chemicals which are poisonous to animals that would otherwise eat monarchs. This is a photo of a monarch caterpillar, the same one that became the chrysalis shown above, taken on September 15, 2006. This is a photo of the same chrysalis as shown in the photo above, taken on September 19. The chrysalis hadn't been there more than a day or two. The photo above shows what the chrysalis looked like on the morning of October 3. I had been watching it every day, and on October 2nd, it was still bright green. On October 3rd, we could clearly see the orange and black of a monarch butterfly's wing through the shell of the chrysalis.
The butterflyweed had also changed during this time.
Less than six hours later, the butterfly was gone.
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