Found “inside” my house
One day I saw the plants on my plant stand moving inside my house and it scared me. Living in rural desert it could have been anything. At that same moment I saw Roxi, my dog staring up at the plants. With caution I moved the plants and found this beauty. Come to find out my hubby found Roxi playing with a chrysalis, took it away from her and through it on the plant stand quite a bit of time before and forgot about it. I carefully caught it and sent it on it’s journey of life. What a fun day it was.
notsofancynancy 
GLORIOUS!!!!!
Regards, Koji D. Kanemoto Sent from S III
By: Mustang.Koji on September 21, 2013
at 7:03 am
Thank you!
By: notsofancynancy on September 21, 2013
at 9:48 am
Lovely. You can catch and release beauties like this–I grow parsley and when I get caterpillars, enclose the parsley in a butterfly enclosure–they make their chrysalis where you can see it and you can see them when they hatch, then let them go. They will overwinter as a chrysalis outside. You can get black swallowtails that way.
By: kocart on September 21, 2013
at 7:53 am
Nice! We have a huge cottonwood tree in the back yard and they live there. We had no idea that the chrysalis would actually hatch. It was a beautiful surprise.
By: notsofancynancy on September 21, 2013
at 9:49 am