Golly, big day in the butterfly house today... we had 7 monarchs emerge.
The two females I contained in the breeding box we also very productive, so we had 20 or 30 more eggs on the milkweed plants. We will watch them carefully. They should hatch in 10 days or so.
The black swallowtail larvae continue to grow. Some are reaching the second phase of their growth were they start to look a little different... I will try to get a picture of that.
Anyway, here is a picture of the pin up board where the monarchs are emerging from
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