10 days ago a Cabbage White Butterfly caterpillar (Pieris rapae) made it's chrysalis and attached itself to a support stick in one of my plant pots. The next day I took it inside our house and provided it with the same care I give to my monarch butterfly chrysalis's. After 9 days a small and perfectly formed little butterfly emerged. As you can see from my photos, it was rather yellowy in colour. I set it outside on a tiny foam stick and left it to finish drying it's wings before flying off to it's butterfly life. I never did get to see it with its wings open, so I could determine it's sex from the wing markings. I'm pretty sure it was a male.
Today I found another White Butterfly chrysalis, so it's getting the same consideration. Also today I found a little white butterfly newly out of it's chrysalis, but it's wings had dried folded over and it couldn't fly. I have placed this one in the freezer. Butterflies close down and (basically) go to sleep in the cold, so the butterfly would have just gone to sleep and then died as the feezer froze it.
Today I found another White Butterfly chrysalis, so it's getting the same consideration. Also today I found a little white butterfly newly out of it's chrysalis, but it's wings had dried folded over and it couldn't fly. I have placed this one in the freezer. Butterflies close down and (basically) go to sleep in the cold, so the butterfly would have just gone to sleep and then died as the feezer froze it.
