A colleague brought me a monarch chrysalis that had formed on a binder clip. We've been watching it change over the past two weeks.
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The chrysalis |
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Beginning to see the wings forming |
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The chrysalis got to spend a few days at pre-school. |
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On Sunday morning we woke up to find the chrysalis turned black. We could just see the orange butterfly wings inside. |
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On Sunday evening the butterfly emerged |
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Vivi named it "Aina Polkabot" - aina after her friend and polkabot because it looked like it was wearing polka dots and vivi says polka bot for polka dots. |
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It's a boy! We can tell by the two black dots near the center of each of the smaller wings. |