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| This is where it all started. An aquarium planted with fennel. We located fennel in a community garden that had little golden eggs of the Swallowtail. |
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| A day or two before hatching the egg turns black. |
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| little hatchling. (images photographed through jewelers loop) |
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| Three days old. |
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| About 5 days old. |
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| 9 days old, third skin. |
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| 12 days old. 4th skin. |
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| spinning the rope that keeps it in place as it metamorphoses. |
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| Still working. Day 15? |
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| About day 16, comatose. |
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| after sitting around a few days,the last skin falls away... | Its moving |
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| And now a full chrysalis, good morning. |
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| After nearly two weeks of no change, the wing patterns appear through skin |
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| Emergence |
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| stretching the wings |
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| Stayed with us about 24 hours before taking its new wings to air. |
