Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Something weird w/ Queen chrysalis, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
mjs - there's nothing wrong with your Queen chrysalids. Sometimes they just happen to be pink or white. Not sure if it is based on what they eat but every now and then one brood will have lots of them. They are equally beautiful :o)

Here's a photo of a bunch of pale Queen chrysalids (ignore the green black swallowtail chrysalis)
I raised about a bunch of caterpillars a couple of years ago and the majority of them formed white to pale pink chrysalids. This photo shows five on a wire 'jungle gym' - which is just a wire basket that I turned upside down and set into an aquarium so they could climb up and pupate.

They all eclosed healthy!!!

I don't raise Queens any more since they are soooooooo abundant out here - but I'll see several pale chrysalids around the house and yard throughout the year.

~ Cat


This message was edited Jul 25, 2009 11:12 PM