Is transporting them okay to do? My monarch has been out of his chrysalis since 9 or earlier but was hanging in the caterpillar cage but had a yucca plant in it. She still may be wet and I put her back in the cage and she is still hanging.
I was holding her and thought best to let her hang once again. Is there a possibility that her wings will straighten since they still may be wet! Will the sun hurt the chrysalis if they are in the sun a little bit?
Do I just let them fly on to the cage screen or my lanai screen? And what can I do for my one in the butterfly cage? Is there any chance to help her spread her wings since they all seem to b there??? Help Me Please!
I thought I was being so careful! Nature can be cruel. Impossible to say what the problem is. I have caterpillar problems too. I have a screened in porch. I have two milkweed plants but one had a caterpillar on it.
Then the next day, it was gone! I just found a chrysalis ton the screen door. I am scared to touch or transport it to the cage or plant. I was wondering if someone could help me. We live on an island off mid-coast Maine. A Monarch caterpillar attached itself to the underside of our windowsill a day or two ago.
Yesterday morning it still looked like a caterpillar. Last night we had a torrential rainstorm which must have knocked it off the windowsill. This morning I see the newly-formed chrysalis lying on the deck in a puddle of water.
Will it still be viable? Is it still possible to rescue it? Is there something wrong? The wings look perfect? I raised and released 34 Black Swallowtail butterflies this summer. A few of them had to be moved and I found out that the best way is to get Contact Cement found at automotive parts stores to attach them to a piece of wood.
This cement is easy to work with and can even be made into a hanging string if you are patient and careful. Almost all the butterflies that I hung like this emerged fine.
Now my question is this: I have a few Monarchs this year for the first time yay! Do you think this method will work okay with this Monarch after it becomes a chrysalis? I like that idea of using a bit of cotton ball material. Never worked with a Monarch chrysalis before. My cats seem to want to go to chrysalis too soon so I suspect I will have very small Monarchs. I had never seen one in real life, and once I learned why, I immediately searched for plants, put them in the ground, watched them soar to five feet tall, then in July, I went out early on a Saturday morning to see a female Monarch flying between the flower clusters, pausing, then moving on.
I found the white dots and was overjoyed! I squished aphids and milkweed bugs with my bare hands and watched over the baby cats as if they were human infants. I lost many due to unknown causes, as I wanted to let this happen as nature intended.
At one point in August, I had well over 50 huge fat cats chomping away on milkweed. When I had found five chrysalides, another cat attached to my fence.
I took its picture and drove off to get groceries. When I came back, I was sure I would find him in partially green splendor. I had only been gone for an hour.
He was dead. As I stared in horror, a yellow jacket landed on him and started chewing. I was heartbroken and furious. But it was a lesson. I have a laundry room that is largely unused where I can close the air conditioning vent and the door. Only a tiny section of white cord leading to the black section. How do I move that? Any ideas? I have a question. I have just a very tiny piece of a black tip left from a chrysalis that fell.
Can I put a pin through that to hang from the plant? I see that I may also be able to glue it but I am not sure which glues are exactly non toxic that I can use. Please help! This guy fell a few days ago and I am not sure how long I have before he tries to come out. Thanks so much!! If so, use un-waxed dental floss and tie a knot to it then tie to a clothes hanger indoors I hang one from a towel rod in shower. Once dry, hang same as mentioned above.
Most likely…. I live in deep South Florida….. Because it is suppose to be windy and in mid-to-high 50s tonight, I detached 7 that I could reach and brought them inside…. All are spaced equally apart, hanging vertically with adequate wing drying space. By bringing them inside….. They are very temperature sensitive.
In the high temperatures of summer they take days to emerge. Maybe more. Some species — swallowtails come to mind — can overwinter for months in chrysalis form. Where is the safest spot to relocate a chrysalis? We had 2 monarch butterflies emerge outside and within mins something are 1 of them with only the wings remaining and the other 1 I hope made it.
It was starting to rain and so we went inside and when I looked 5 mins later it was gone but a huge lizard was where the butterfly had been. I need help. Yes, lizards, geckos, mice and other creatures will eat monarchs and other butterflies. Its a monarch and we get lots and lots of caterpillars but in six months this is our first visible chrysalis.
Of course we will let him go after he hatches! I am SO excited, especially with our two bushes and knowing we can rescue caterpillars and endangered chrysalises chrysali? The chrysalis the very first day fell to the floor of my pop up mash container. Can I leave him alone on the floor or should I relocate him and how do I do that please? Yes, it must be hanging when the butterfly emerges. I have found 4 healthy green chrysalides this week that look to have been eaten at the bottom.
I am in southeast Florida. I would really like to know what it could be — lizards, rodents, birds? This time the cats are disappearing and there are far less chrysalis and now the chrilysalides are being eaten as well. Maybe their were fewer predators in the cooler months.
It is warm and active now. I guess will have to go back to using the enclosure. If you can give me an idea of what critter eats the bottoms of the chysalis, it would help my curiosity. This is my first time raising monarch. I started with 7 caterpillars, 3 already formed to Chrysalis. The four look skinnier now, is there something wrong with them? What should I do to remove them if they are not alive anymore. Your help will be greatly appreciated. I have a butterfly with a broken wing and I feed her and keep her indoors in a nice terrarium.
The odd thing is that although she knows how to uncurl her proboscis now to eat, she will only eat from my fingers. Is she okay? Her half wing fell off but with 3 out of 4 she can get around the cage fine. Thank you. The holes in the mesh are big enough for the whole crysallis to hang, and the butterfly has a place to hang on while drying.
I raise all of mine in captivity due to tachinid fly. Is there a way of making an artificial cocoon to put these babies back in. My wife started helping Butterflies April 30, I am retired and try to help in some areas. As of June 30, we have released for year 6 months.
Yesterday I found chrysalis in floor of cage and its silk was black and hard. I tried to pin it as she does with the silk, the black broke off.
I now know to use glue on paper towel. How do we save this one? My monarch chrysalis fell from the spot I had it hanging. Some yellow liquid came out of the bottom of it…Dead? I have 20 chrysalis on a small manufactured tree I purchased for Christmas ornaments.
I have been able to release 12 without a problem but now the weather is stormy and it will be below 60 degrees tonight for at least an hour. Five of my little creatures have moved from the Chrysalis Tree to screens on the windows. Rain is to stop in a couple of hours 5 PM and at 5 AM it is suppose to get to 59 degrees. Will they be okay if I release them after 5 PM? One of my dead cats I found on the above said Common Milkweed. Should I try to move my other cats from that Milkweed? If so, how do I go about it?
There is certainly a great deal to find out about this issue. I was trimming my sage bush this afternoon and brought some of the branches inside to put in a vase. As I was putting them in the vase, I heard something hard fall off and looked down and found a green-and-gold chrysalis—now identified as a monarch. The chrysalis is hard and appears undamaged, but my stomach turns when I remember the thump sound.
Yes you should definitely stick it up somewhere. If you have tape try to tape the tiny black tip on the top to a wall or surface where it can emerge from safely.
It should be in an upright position. Well, I hung the chrysalis indoors and was surprised to find a young butterfly in my bedroom a couple of days ago! At first I was very excited, but I soon noticed a few problems. Her wings look very fresh, one of her legs is either a bit crooked or weak, and one of her antannae droops to the ground. But the next day she looked the same. We gently took her outside, where she tried to fly and promptly fell over helplessly.
I made hummingbird sugar water to see if she should drink some for energy, which she did only with my husband propping her over the edge of the plate.
She surprised me because I checked it every day and it was still green, not dark or clear. Is that normal? Has anyone seen that before? Hi Rachel. It looks like no one replied to your question? I just wanted to say that I am also very sensitive to the wellbeing of these creatures and it sounds like you did your best.
I think she may have come out prematurely but the change from green to dark before emerging can be very fast. I send you a hug. You did your best and before harvesting plants we will inspect for chrysalis in the future.
I have four caterpillars in one large mesh cube, two have made their crysalis and two are j-hanging now… I just notice one crysalis is leaking green fluid. Do you think one of the other cats chewed on it when looking for his spot to j-hang? Should I throw the leaking crysalis in the freezer? Carey, I also had a chrysalis that was leaking fluid from a small hole in the side. I also think another cat had a I moved it to the kitchen in case it was diseased, hung it from a cupboard, and hoped for the best.
So far, it has been about a week and it looks like the hole has sealed up, wings are forming and the cover is becoming translucent, so I assume that the butterfly is still viable. We will see in a few days. I was given a monarch chrysalis in a quart jar. How and when do I release it? How do i remove one forming into a chrysallis to another place because it is attaching itself to another chrysallis?
My first time to care for a caterpillar. The first chrysallis is about a week now. I have a caterpillar forming their chrysalis right now, but it is literally hanging by the thread of an eaten milkweed leaf.
It cannot stay there. Can I move it tonight? I can usually attribute it to overcrowding or predation by a tachinid fly. If this applies to your situation, then find an appropriate solution for the future. I have learned that the caterpillars can be aggressive if there are too many in an enclosure. I have also had caterpillars who then release a tachinid fly larva after a few days. My suggestion is to move your caterpillar and isolate.
I write a little note with a date and then observe for a while. I have a chrysalis which is big and heavy. I thought that it seemed to like laying horizontal on a flat surface but is it really okay to leave it like that? Hello, just had a monarch emerge and I happened to be watching this one emerge. His front leg seemed to be stuck to the chrysalis but he got it free. It has been almost 4 hours and still his leg is very weak and does not extend and he does not seem like a strong flier.
Do you think he will improve? Will he survive do you think? It sounds like your butterfly may be infected with OE, and they will scatter the OE everywhere they go. I have wanted share this story with someone for several years. I t was getting cold and everyone of the caterpillars had left my parsley. I found one little one and brought her in, used some parsley in a jar with a cloth lid.
That worked for several days and then one morning the jar was empty. I looked all over the kitchen, no caterpillar About two weeks or so later when I was at the sink, she dropped down on my shoulder. She been behind the mirror over my sink. I set her free even though it was November and prayed she made it south.
This year I had 11 caterpillars on the parsley I planted especially for them. They are all gone but I have not been able to find one chrysalis. Unbeknownst to me it was in the process of making the silk webbing.
I damaged the webbing will it rebuild it? I planted milkweed during quarantine and have been wildly successful. Unfortunately, the current cold snap in Houston has me concerned. I found 23 chrysalides, only 4 have become butterflies. Do I need to move the remaining ones inside? Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Can I move a monarch butterfly chrysalis? Share this: Twitter Facebook.
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