Blake gave Justin a gold-rimmed swallowtail caterpillar for his birthday... very cool! We watched him & fed him daily until he went dormant a couple weeks later. We actually thought he had died and were planning to "get rid of him", but woke up the next morning to find him all wrapped up in his chrysalis. After two weeks, we thought he was dead again... but were elated to return from a trip to Krispy Kreme to a beautiful butterfly! We want to get another one (Blake got him at the Winter Park farmer's market) so we can watch the transformation again.
our newly hatched butterfly
We released him on the lantana in our backyard
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