Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Metamorphosis

In September, we had a freaky-looking dark orange-red caterpillar take up residence by our front door and start to cocoon itself. I opted to take photo evidence of the transformation and string the pictures together.

For several days, the white chrysalis just sat there, then went from white to indigo overnight, and within less than 24 hours, the gulf fritillary butterfly within had emerged and taken flight.