Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Emerged yesterday! Giant or Ornythion Swallowtail?, 1 by chris_lcf530

chris_lcf530 wrote:
Hi all, I will try to keep this short, but I could use advice. My 6 yr old daughter found caterpillar on my parsley. I looked it up and sure enough we had eggs, cats and caterpillars of the black swallowtail. They were running out of parsley so I bought more, left some cats on the original plant and quick put together an inside house for the others. They went to school, one even became a butterfly while there. Now...all were set free back in Nov. (I think it was Nov.) 2 are left in the chrysalis and are still on my back porch. Are they ok? If they are when should I start keeping watch for them to emerge?