Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My swallowtails BST and GST are taking too long to eclose?, 1 by thea611

thea611 wrote:
I've had MANY BST's stay in the chrysalis for months and months. Even the ones that pupate early in the summer, many of them don't eclose until the following spring! I always feel bad about that, because in the summer, there are so many flowers in my gardens and elsewhere, the perfect time to eclose! But they wait until March or April, when there aren't that many flowers out.
Just be sure to keep checking on them to release any that do eclose!