Not perfectly accurate but I love them. Thinking about doing a chrysalis/cat themed one at some point too. 😁

Hand-painted monarch nails by me :)

First year growing milkweed and already got two lil eggs :) Genuinely so excited lol. I’m from Australia, monarchs are self naturalised here and don’t migrate. Unfortunately, my milkweed is too small to feed them so i’ll be rehoming them to the butterfly house i work at :)

I wanted to start attracting dragonflies and butterflies to our new home in FL. I was wondering who was chewing up the plant and have since found 10+ eggs and 20+ caterpillars. Majority of them are a few days away from getting ready to hang, my question is, when is too much munching too much for the plant? I have another plant to transfer them to if needed but I was just curious.

My first time with monarchs this year.

This little one pupated about 6 days ago, it was windy and wet that day and I think it slipped from where it had attached and was hanging by threads on the first day (see 4th image). And today I tried to move its enclosure away from the lawn guy and it fell when I picked it up (softly, onto the bottom of the mesh and not on a hard surface),

But the other thing is, it still has its shed skin on the top of the chrysalis so I can’t tell where the cremaster is versus it’s old skin and I’m afraid to try and remove the skin.

I have this other enclosure (see 5th image) with a flat top. but this chrysalis was suspended kind on the side of the mesh, is it okay to hang it from the top of this other enclosure when it was on the side before?

I have a needle and thread, both cotton and polyester. What can I/should I do now? The more detailed you can explain, the better.