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What Will Hatch?

If you find a butterfly chrysalis, you can take it home and wait until it hatches into a beautiful butterfly. But not always. There are a variety of wasps and flies that parasitize caterpillars and chrysalids, so sometimes that chrysalis may hatch into a bunch of tiny parasitic wasps or flies.

The top photo below is a chrysalis of the cloudless sulfur, but it seems to have been damaged or parasitized, so I’m waiting to see what emerges. For comparison, there are healthy chrysalids from the same species in the bottom photo. Stay tuned!

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