Okay, technically I don't know if butterflies have a "baby" stage, but since they were born yesterday and we witnessed their first flights I'm calling them babies. This first shot was taken at 9:30 am, and again, I shot it through the glass...
At 11:30 am... we missed the actual hatching but caught this right before we left to have lunch with Cole at school.
At 1:27pm after we'd returned from lunch... Harper said, "He has a friend!"
At 2:33pm, shortly after Cole got off the school bus...
At 5:06pm, right after Mark arrived home from work, this one decided to climb out the hard way...
...we ended up helping it a bit since the edges of the case were slippery...but then it didn't want to let go of us.
Drying off a little more....
...Mark took these last two shots while it perched on my arm.
Bye bye, butterflies!Labels: Fall, monarch butterflies |
I love the one on Harper's hand. I bet she loved it. Cool!!