Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Pop Up Hamper for Monarch Caterpillars, 1 by maithyme

maithyme wrote:
I love DG, answers to burning questions are probably on one forum or another. Recently saw my first cat/monarch transformation - awesome. Caterpillar was small forming chrysalis but monarch that hatched was large. How did that happen? My question was how long does it take to go from cocoon to butterfly. Sheila, is the answer 10 days or am I not understanding jargon? The 2 pillars in my cage currently formed chrysalis Sept. 28 so will they soon eclose? If they do I'm relieved because my fear was that it would be too cold for them to survive. Pic is of first succesful Monarch; even chrysalis is unbelievably beautiful too.