Just hatched
Just in time for Easter, this monarch butterfly hatched yesterday in our front yard. A couple weeks ago, my son excitedly watched three caterpillars eating our milkweed plant. Then they disappeared -- we found two cocoons. One butterfly hatched a couple days ago, but this one held on. Good thing, too, so we got to see it! The Man-cub actually discovered the butterfly before I did. We watched while it got used to its wings to be ready to fly.
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posted by Holly at 7:29 AM
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I remember my first butterfly hatching. My Gramps had told me to keep an eye on the cocoon I'd found on one of the bushes in the yard. And I was lucky enough to see it split open and the butterfly emerge. That same year, the squirrel that lived in the tree in our yard, that Gramps used to feed all the time, had babies. And she left them on our front porch. Three of them. My sister and I raised them on doll bottles.
What an amazing experience to witness that in nature!!!!
Oh wowza, I'd love some color like that Holly! Send him north! :)
How magical. What a gift!
How Beautiful!!!
That's so cool that he got to discover it!
I need to plant my milkweed seeds!
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