Adult Monarch Butterfly Emerges from its Chrysalis

After nine days of behind the scenes changes, the adult monarch butterfly is ready to meet the world!

Is it a boy or a girl? We'll show you how to tell the difference!

[evanisovich]

Man...that first full wing outstretch is probably one of the best feelings ever 😁

[melissawarren]

I don't think enough people realize how beautiful nature is to our world. There's a purpose for everything.

[DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY]

I love hearing all of the birds singing in the background of this video.😇😍🥰🐦

[angela]

I bought a swan plant for my daughter so she could experience the wonder of she was over it within a couple of days LOL.
Then I witnessed a wasp literally sucking the life out a caterpillar. Awful!!! After seeing that I couldn't just leave them outside and vulnerable (they are so cute when they hatch) so I decided to bring the plant inside...keep them safe LOL

Anyway, long story short I have 22 Chrysalis babies ready to hatch, I can't wait!!. Thanks for sharing :o) I am addicted!!

[SuperJuneM]

2:15 who here just heard a cat?? Also, this is basically me trying to get out of bed in the morning lol

[higpitnaman]

this is great infomation... i am currently writing a short children's story this morning for an online educational module. it is about KRISA, the happy butterfly. this video gave me a vivid imaghes of how they emerge.

[barbsrose]

I enjoyed watching this video. I’ve been raising monarch butterflies for several years. It always amazes me to see this beautiful creature emerge from its chrysalis. I talk about the Monarch butterflies into the garden group, which I belong to in northeastern, Pennsylvania. I urge our members to plant native milkweed and n their gardens where it will not be disturbed but monitored.
I found this year was not a good year for Monarchs.

[dianapengitore]

Two boys on the left and two girls on the right. I started raising monarch butterflies late last year and had 13 of them. My goal for this year was 100. So far, I counted 163 of them with more to come. The entire process from egg to caterpillar to Chrysalis to butterfly is truly amazing and this video is very educational. 🐛🦋👍😊

[shermendlakk]

:0! Butterflies can meow? Illuminati confirmed! 🔼

[sirMAXX]

That butterfly just seconds from emerging and already was about to be some cats dinner.

[nicolhaidi]

From left to right, male, male, female, female.
Also I just realized butterflies are giant mosquitos with fancy wings. Odd.

[janetd]

Left two, male. Right two, female. I thought I heard a kitty in the background!

[purplemninja]

I remember once when I was younger I had a little habitat and a kit to grow 5 caterpillars (I don't remember what species). The caterpillars came in a jar with breathing holes on the top and caterpillar food on the bottom. Four got up to the top of the jar and cocooned while the last one died somehow. I took the pad with the cocoons out of the jar and into the habitat. Like over a week later, only three of them had emerged, the last one had turned black and never emerged, so that one failed. But as if that wasn't enough, one the three sole survivors had misshapen wings. Later that day I repeatedly threw the butterflies into the air to release them, after a while both of the perfect ones managed to fly away, as for the poor one with misshapen wings, I placed it on a plant in a field and let it be free that way, I tested the little one but of course it couldn't fly because of its misshapen wings.

Many years before that I was visiting my grandmother and grandfather with my family and they had some wooden wind chimes laying on the floor of their garden and I saw a cocoon stuck to one of the tubes. I gently peeled it off and we took it back home with us. A long while later (from what I can remember) my mother and I walked into the kitchen and found the cocoon transparent and empty. We looked at the window and saw a cabbage white butterfly on it, on the inside so it obviously came from the cocoon I found. My mother caught it and then released it out in the garden where it flew away to freedom.

[ShadowXSonicXPokemon]

Metapod evolves into Butterfree but in real life

[idontknowanymore]

i’m taking care of 3 right now and one is already hanging upside down in a j shape making all sorts of webs it’s so cool i’m so excited to see it turn into a chrysalis ^^

[kathybrant]

Just found this video after witnessing a monarch caterpillar form into a crystalys within hours. I'm fascinated by the gold thread looking line around it. Truly looks like 24k. It's been about a week and my husband and I just witnessed, what looked like, it taking a pee. Now has a small opening on the side so it won't be long. From Florida ❤🦋🌞😀👍👍

[craigquinata]

Great video! Just learned something from my son! We found 2x males and 2x females..

[MyPaloma]

Very informative Monarch videos-and you made it fun, too! I currently have quite a few caterpillars munching away on volunteer Milkweed plants along my driveway-now I know what to expect! Thankyou! :^)

[kearanbrown]

I saw this is my school and I’m seeing the beautiful butterfly emerge again ❤❤❤

[mkrazee]

Thank you for capturing this, i have a bunch of Monarchs in their Chrysalis and i try to capture them leaving it, only to see them doing the Stretching their wings