Monarch-Caterpillar to Butterfly

During early August there are always Monarch caterpillars at our home in northern Minnesota. My wife, Diana, has brought in several of these caterpillars and watched them change from caterpillar to chrysalis to full grown butterfly. Here is a photographic record of those efforts.

Here you see two Monarch caterpillars on Swamp Milkweed, their favorite plant,.

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