Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily butterfly pictures #90, 0 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
OK....Hate to post the ugly after the beautiful but......
I had brought in about a dozen or so Queens and they made it fine until about the third instar. They quit eating and slumped, folded, or fell to the bottom of the cage. I put them in the freezer to destroy whatever parasite was the cause. However I just want to show you what they looked like. It appears they tried to make a chrysalis at the last to avoid dying. The same thing happened with the first batch of Queens last year also.