14K views · 326 reactions | Each year the monarch butterflies fly...

I planted way more milkweed this year than ever before and it’s getting close to being all eaten. I’m finding chrysalis all over the place. Still had trouble with Tachnid Flys during the summer but it looks like this huge lot that’s going to chrysalis and emerging now overwhelmed the flys so I’m hopeful to have maybe a hundred monarchs fly out of my yard. This monarch will soon begin its one thousand plus mile journey to the Mountains of Central Mexico where it will overwinter with millions of i

4.9K views · 144 reactions | Eclosion is the term used to describe a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. Once completely out of the chrysalis, the butterfly will hang upside down using gravity to help pump meconium throughout its wings. They will soon fully expand and dry off allowing the butterfly to take flight. Video: Time-lapse of monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, Rachel Stein/USFWS. (There is no audio.) | Seney National Wildlife Refuge | Facebook