Sequence shot's Black Swallowtail Cat to chrysalis

forming "J" you can see the silk "sling"

"soft chrysalis" before it's changed colors and hardened.

fully formed chrysalis, hardened and changed colors...the silk "sling" remains thru the whole process.

Cool. Thanks for the pics.

yes .... cool. Please post more as they develop

Crit,
Those have already eclosed. I think I have some from last year of one eclosing, I'll see if I can find them. ( I think I posted them last year).

Oh that's ok. If you know where they are that is fine, but if you don't, don't worry about it. I just signed on here a couple of months ago. Wish I had found it A LOT SOONER! :-))

here's some from last year
be sure to click on the image, as the thumbnail does not show that this is actually a collage.

This message was edited Sep 20, 2010 7:29 AM

this is the same BST in the previous post, waiting for wings to dry so I could release.

Thanks for the pics. That is neat

Wow -really cool pictures - thanks so much!