Butterfly Video. Birth. Adaptation. Flight.
June 17, 2009 at 1:14 pm (Butterflies, Caterpillars, Day to Day, Video) (Birth, Butterflies, Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Cocoon, Day to Day, Drying, Emergence, Flying, Mourning Cloak, Video, Wings)
First up, as much as I could capture of the butterflies emerging. Excuse the jerky camera movement. I am not a professional. I was trying to get right in there!
This is our little gang fluttering around, flexing their wings. Again, some jerky movement and butterfly downtime. You can fast forward or watch it through. It’s actually somewhat soothing. I don’t know why.
And finally, the flight away from our temporary shelter. This whole process of emerging to flying took about 5 hours, approximately. This one is particularly long. Same bad camera work, but still really amazing. The real action is about at the 2:40 mark. It really is a cool thing to see.
In the end we still had two in the bin. Six in the world. And three still hanging.
just shy of pretty 
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