Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterfly Pictures #86, 1 by Sheila_FW

Sheila_FW wrote:
You didn't miss much Russell. See the large abdomen, still full. The fluids are used to pump up the wings. They aren't ever "wet", just not hardened. That is why you want to make sure you don't disturb them when they first emerge. If they should fall looking like the one in your picture, it would never be able to fly. This is all you missed, it happens in the blink of an eye. They absorb the fluid inside the chrysalis leaving it transparent then bust it open and flip out, holding on to the empty chrysalis. Then they start working the proboscis in and out. It is two parts and will form one tube as they munipulate it.