An unusual blue-gray monarch chrysalis ... when the caterpillar sheds its skin and becomes a pupa,” said Oberhauser. “It's something that's happened for a long time.” ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle ... that have formed inside. Next the chrysalis opens, and the butterfly crawls out ...

After this stage the butterfly emerges and requires a day to dry its wings before ... Dispatch 4/9: Monarch butterfly chrysalis hang on a screen at the Nelson home on Long lake north of Pine ...

Ten to 14 days later —the chrysalis turning transparent in the process — a Monarch butterfly emerges ... winged creature lift into the sky on its long long journey. Someday, those gathered ...

Yingling is admiring a monarch butterfly that in the last hour had spilled out of its pupal case — the nearly monthlong process from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to emergence at last completed. The ...