User blog:Abbykurle/A MIRACLE IS BORN!!!!!!!!!

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THE BUTTERFLY CAME OUT OF HIS CHRYSALIS THIS MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!

AND DESPITE SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN (literally) I MISSED IT COMING OUT! GAH

BUT

STILL SO COOL!

AND

IT'S A BOY!

I named him Miracle because he fell off the top of the cage twice when in his chrysalis, yet still survived!!

I let him crawl on my finger and brought him outside, where he stretched out his wings and let them dry. Unfortunately, we had to go the beach in a few minutes, so I didn't get to see him fly away. I took lots of pictures, and put him on the fence so he could fly away on his own. When we came back from the beach, he was gone.

OH AND HE WAS SO FURRRRRY

I took an especially close-up picture so you could see his furry face

and man, he was huge!

I'm hoping the others are girls, because I have never actually got a girl before. Maybe I have, but I don't remember. Two years ago, I raised two caterpillars, and they were both boys. One was Bob, the other was Valiant.

You can tell if they are boys or girls by looking at the upside of their hindwings. Males have thinner stripes and a black spot on one of the stripes on the upside of the hindwings. Females have no black spot and thicker stripes.

The other chrysalis isn't ready to come out, but maybe in a week or so he or she will. Also, the third caterpillar that we accidentally caught is almost ready to make his/her chrysalis!

PICTURES COMING SOON

And by that, I mean in two years because I cannot remember to add the pictures