Excellent monarch video. Glad you show the instar stages 🐛. This past week October 1st I saw some Monarchs along with lots of other butterflies at Lake Lure Flowering Bridge in North Carolina. So inspiring!
I have collected caterpillars for many years but never was able to catch them as they changed into a chrysalis or emerged as a butterfly. Releasing them is always a thrill! Thank you for completing the journey from cat to adult! Im in zone 4 NH so we wait until June too to see the monarch return, Always a treat!
Thank you, Doug, for taking the time to record the whole process and provide comments at key moments. I’ve brought in a chrysalis (south of Ottawa) for the first time and had no idea what to expect, otherwise. I am so keen to see it happen. I suspect I won’t be able to sleep a wink the night before it ecloses. Cheers!
Amazing! I moved into a home in May and the neighbors told me the previous owners had planted milkweed and had lots of monarchs in the summer. I have just been enthralled with the whole process- from egg , to caterpillar, to pupa and then to the beauty of the butterflies. Although I’ve been watching the pupa in my garden, I haven’t yet witnessed this transformation so your video was very interesting. Thank you.
I just find this and for me is so beautiful, i decide that i want to learn how to take care of them too and help them since me and my daughter got two milkweed plants and soon started to see them, they are amazing and beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this
I would like to congratulate and thank you for not only your dedication, but your attention to detail and perseverance throu what is this amazing metamorphosis. The time and energy that you have expended so that those of us that live in areas that are not as fortunate to say something so miraculous are able to witness it in the comfort of our own homes is commendable and downright amazing! I know sometimes people like to leave criticisms in the comment section, and I would not want to presume to even think of improving on what’s already amazing… As a video editor by trade as far as yours own personal sanity when things take a really long time, perhaps consider that ground music :-) this is not to say these videos are not already 100% great it’s just something that popped into my head while I was watching and thought I might share it because in the film industry collaboration is key. But I didn’t want to say a great and huge. Thank you for taking the time in the first place for me to even have the thought to share.
hello im monty from illinios when i was a kid 10 years of age now 56 i took a cacoon from bush in woods and wedge in a jar with lid bunch of holes did not knowing what to expect was to come from it i checked on it 24/7 much as i could out side playing ran to my room to check on the cacoon behold it was coming out bedroom window was open took lid off sit the jar on the ledge and watched with delight when i seen it was a monarch butterfly monie was born i sit there in awe i could of called out to my friends and siblings to watch but NO this was mine all mine i couldnt move monie wings unfolded few min went hell could of been hours i was so inhaced watching monie then monie started to climb out and set there open and closing its wings i figured it was drying them out them monie took flight i stuck my head out the window to watch monie then my sholders then i all most fell out the widow not paying atention but monie boy are girl did not know how to tell braced the sides of window to get one last look at the butterfly i seen it then the SUN BLOCKED MY VIEW had to sqint he /she was gone ive always hoped monie made it to the butterfly place they all go.for you monie for u. sorry for spelling
2:25 Hemolymph (the insect equivalent of blood) is actually the fluid pumped into those wings from the abdomen.
Thank you!
I never really gave much thought about what it was called, it's good to know ^^
Excellent monarch video. Glad you show the instar stages 🐛. This past week October 1st I saw some Monarchs along with lots of other butterflies at Lake Lure Flowering Bridge in North Carolina. So inspiring!
I have collected caterpillars for many years but never was able to catch them as they changed into a chrysalis or emerged as a butterfly. Releasing them is always a thrill! Thank you for completing the journey from cat to adult! Im in zone 4 NH so we wait until June too to see the monarch return, Always a treat!
Thanks for uploading this with no edits! It's really beneficial for children.
Thank you, Doug, for taking the time to record the whole process and provide comments at key moments. I’ve brought in a chrysalis (south of Ottawa) for the first time and had no idea what to expect, otherwise. I am so keen to see it happen. I suspect I won’t be able to sleep a wink the night before it ecloses. Cheers!
Thank you a lot for the vídeos, they are just beautifull, like the monarchs
Thank you
Love your video! It is amazing to see the transformation this little thing undergoes. ❤️
Amazing! I moved into a home in May and the neighbors told me the previous owners had planted milkweed and had lots of monarchs in the summer. I have just been enthralled with the whole process- from egg , to caterpillar, to pupa and then to the beauty of the butterflies. Although I’ve been watching the pupa in my garden, I haven’t yet witnessed this transformation so your video was very interesting. Thank you.
Amazing! I never tire of it!
Thank for sharing, it is wonderful to see it.I live in California and I have a milkweed plant many butterfly’s are in my garden.thank you again.
it must be dangerous for the butterfly, moving, byt unable to fly, a huge risk of being eaten during this phase
It takes two hours to expand and dry its wings I to had a pupa and it only comes out in the morning so reptiles dont eat them
Thank You! :)
Sooo beautiful! Lovely creature and lovely man
and loved the video brought back good scrach that awsome memories
it is beautiful, it´s a dream..
This was fascinating and beautiful but also like watching a tiny horror movie, LOL! Thank you for sharing your passion with us ❤️
Your videos are very interesting!
1:52 she looks like " I'm now free."
I just find this and for me is so beautiful, i decide that i want to learn how to take care of them too and help them since me and my daughter got two milkweed plants and soon started to see them, they are amazing and beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this
I would like to congratulate and thank you for not only your dedication, but your attention to detail and perseverance throu what is this amazing metamorphosis. The time and energy that you have expended so that those of us that live in areas that are not as fortunate to say something so miraculous are able to witness it in the comfort of our own homes is commendable and downright amazing! I know sometimes people like to leave criticisms in the comment section, and I would not want to presume to even think of improving on what’s already amazing… As a video editor by trade as far as yours own personal sanity when things take a really long time, perhaps consider that ground music :-) this is not to say these videos are not already 100% great it’s just something that popped into my head while I was watching and thought I might share it because in the film industry collaboration is key. But I didn’t want to say a great and huge. Thank you for taking the time in the first place for me to even have the thought to share.
Watching the butterfly pump hemolymph into the wings is like watchin an airplane refuelling. Just saying.
I had caterpillars too and there are 25 of them. The species of my caterpillars are silvery checkerspots
Wow 😲 silvery checkerspot butterflies are really beautiful but small 🥺🥺
10:51 She's so pretty 🦋
thank you so much! i never get bored either watching God's creatures
hello im monty from illinios when i was a kid 10 years of age now 56 i took a cacoon from bush in woods and wedge in a jar with lid bunch of holes did not knowing what to expect was to come from it i checked on it 24/7 much as i could out side playing ran to my room to check on the cacoon behold it was coming out bedroom window was open took lid off sit the jar on the ledge and watched with delight when i seen it was a monarch butterfly monie was born i sit there in awe i could of called out to my friends and siblings to watch but NO this was mine all mine i couldnt move monie wings unfolded few min went hell could of been hours i was so inhaced watching monie then monie started to climb out and set there open and closing its wings i figured it was drying them out them monie took flight i stuck my head out the window to watch monie then my sholders then i all most fell out the widow not paying atention but monie boy are girl did not know how to tell braced the sides of window to get one last look at the butterfly i seen it then the SUN BLOCKED MY VIEW had to sqint he /she was gone ive always hoped monie made it to the butterfly place they all go.for you monie for u. sorry for spelling
Keep it up I love your content
Well now I know why the butterfly’s wings are always wet when emerging.
Thank you! This was amazing, but I wonder if they ever think or not feel like getting up and emerging
Gorgeous🐛🐛🐛🐛
Woweee
She knows she's a beauty!
hi
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