Painted lady butterflies

@MistyMagic

Ooh I like these ideas 🥰 I agree the first one to become a crysilis needs a fast name

I think you should name one Florentine meaning “blossoming” in French for one of the butterflies who had the most interesting growth (whether it took longer, or how long it took to form their chrysalis, and where they formed their chrysalis.) if you can’t decide which was the most interesting out of them all, then just choose a butterfly that catches your eye when you think of Florentine :)

@oliveTree4069 That is a beautiful name!

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Day 12

It's moving day! Today the caterpillars have moved into their hatching habitat

You know what that means? It's also naming day! As the crysilis won't move until they now emerge as butterflies. I am a little concerned over the ones on the napkin but I hope they'll be okay

So there are 5 to name, I have labelled them in order of when they turned into crysilis

I will announce the official names either later today, or in tomorrow's post. Have fun naming them!

Super excited!! I’m sure they will all make it out of this process just fine!😊

Naming time!

Hello everyone it is time to name the caterpillars/butterflies!

We have 5 to name and I will post pictures of them again just as a reminder

Please comment the number and name suggestion below 🥰

Tagging people who showed interest in wanting to help name them @oliveTree4069 @MistyMagic @Sunisshiningandsoareyou @trueconfidant123

#3 seems like they would be a good Florentine :)

@SomebodySpicy13 Ooh yayy I have 4 suggestions hehe, Blossom, Lea, Buttercup xD, Iris. Pick any! 😮

Hi friends sorry for the lack of updates I've been having technical issues and dealing with stuff. But anyways...

We now have 3 butterflies! I unfortunately missed them hatching out of the crysilis due to being in a meeting but my sister saw it happen

I will include some pictures and videos below. The red you can see isn't blood, insect blood is yellow, it's stuff called meconium, the left over stuff from metamorphosis. I'll try to keep it out of photos and videos in future

Click here to see butterfly hatching!

Unfortunately I have no idea in what order they hatched as I say I did miss it

Butterflies are beautiful@SomebodySpicy13

Day 17 (I think, I lost count of the days 😂)

So I went to go over to look at the butterflies and thought I was going crazy as I saw 4 butterflies instead of 3 in the habitat

I got my mum to come over and have a look and low and behold another butterfly had just hatched out!

(It's very difficult to get a picture through the mesh, my apologies)

All the butterflies are doing well and are stretching their wings and eating from the orange I placed in the habitat.

Unfortunately the curled up cocoon that I affectionately named curly boi didn't make it

So sorry to hear that curly boi didn’t make it :( but I’m so happy to hear that the other butterflies are doing so well!😊

@SomebodySpicy13 Thanks for keeping us updated RIP Curly Boi will you bury them under a nice butterfly bush, is that possible would hate to think of them flushed away after they were such an important part of the team :)

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@SomebodySpicy13 When will you release them? And where? Its getting wet and colder here not sure about your weather.

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@MistyMagic

Curly boi can be buried outside so he won't just be flushed or thrown away. I can release them on Thursday so long as the temperature is above 12 degrees and it's not raining

Day 18

The butterflies are all stretching their wings and practicing flying now, it's so cute to see them trying to fly

It won't be long until they are ready to be released outside, I sure will miss them :(

You may have noticed one of the butterflies is smaller than the others and has a slightly mishapen wing, she has been called nemo

The other girl (you can tell the gender by the shape of their abdomens, girls are more rounded than boys) we will name Florentine, and the two boys will be called Pickle (as one got a bit stuck) and the other will be Speedy

Wow where can I order one?

@lonely8282jenefa

Hi, I got these butterflies from Insect Lore, if you type that into any search engine you should be able to find these 🥰

Thanks so much!

Day 21 - Release day 😁🦋

The day has come, my friends, to release the butterflies!

They are all strong and can fly about now so it is time to take them outside to be released

Once the habitat was opened, one of the butterflies flew straight out raring to go and took off up my yard

The other three chose to hang around a little bit to stretch their wings and warm up before taking flight

One was hanging out on my sister's hand sunning out his wings for a few minutes before he too flew away...

Don't worry, they haven't gone too far away, they are still fluttering around my yard with all the plants and flowers.

So, thankyou dear friends for allowing me to share this with you and for coming along on the journey with me. This won't be the last you see of me ☺️

@SomebodySpicy13 Fly safe beautiful butterflies! And thank-you for taking the time and energy to post all these beautiful pictures and keeping us updated too 💖

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@MistyMagic

You are very welcome. It's been a pleasure getting to share this with you all 🥰

So beautiful and thank you so much for sharing their journey with us!😊