Monarch Mayhem

Hi Everyone.

Around 5 months ago my Mum foolishly bought a swan plant. in seconds we had HUNDREDS of caterpillers all munching away sadly being eaten by wasps. All our hard work was worth nothing as they were all eaten by wasps before they could turn into chryslises.. :>(

however having entirely given up on them we left them to bunch away, be eaten and die in our lively veggie garden. The plant got barer and barer until one day when I rode my bike past I decided to stop and have a look just to make sure. When I looked to my delight I discovered two very well developed chrysalises, one big and one tiny. I told mum and she sniped a bit of the plant (with the monarch-to-be on it) off and took it inside. When we arrived home on Friday we to our distraught discovered that the Monarch had hatched and our Kitten which has a very bad hobbit of eating anything that moves was in the house!!! we searched but found nothing. after sitting down sadly at our dining room table to plug my phone in to charge i discovered a still monarch drying its wings!!! "MUM!!!" I called. "I'VE FOUND IT!" And sure enough our Monarch was alive-just!!! After 10 minutes I had taught it to sit on my hand and become friends. Because of natures ways we had to let our little critter go so we took her (it was a girl-no spots on her wings) outside. she flew off but then came back and landed on my hand. we took her round the back where some other monarchs were flying and let her go there. she happily flew off starting her "real" life. we now have another two crysalises ready hatch today or tomorrow.

If you have read this the hole way through say "Monarchs aren't Maggots" to me at school and I will tell you ow to make a water collector or some other useful piece of info about kakepuku!

Photo Referance: Google Images-

Chrysalis-bitbybit.co.nz/.../4%20Monarch%20Chrysalis.jpg

Monarch-pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/santa_barbara_c...