Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: How long from chrysalid to eclosure??, 0 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
The life of a butterfly looks so easy when they are gliding on the wind... But in fact they are one creature that requires a lot of struggle to survive. So what looks mean to us is actually love in the first degree. Also, the eggs inside of her are not fertilized until she is just about to oviposit. The sperm is stored in an sac on her abdomen. The sac is called Spermathecae. When the female butterfly is formed in the chrysalis all her eggs are inside of her. Similar to human females which have all their eggs when formed in the womb of their mother, at about 20 weeks in utero. Pretty cool!

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Yesterday the tiniest Gulf Fritillary eclosed. When all her friends kept eating, she decided to morph. She was only in her 3rd instar> One wing side view, almost an inch.>