Today is my last day in Ohio before traveling back to Georgia, so it was time for me to pack up my bug collecting equipment. I went to check on my variegated fritillary chrysalis one last time. I opened the habitat and noticed the chrysalis looked different. I touched the chrysalis and it felt empty!…

My variegated fritillary caterpillar made a chrysalis! I’ve been checking every day to see if anything would happen! I looked it up online and the internet says it could take anywhere from 5 days to a few weeks for a butterfly to emerge. I’m so excited to see what happens next!

Check out this amazing specimen I found! This is a Variegated Fritillary butterfly caterpillar. It has six rows of black spines and has a pair of long, clubbed spines on the head. I found him on our patio. Grandpa Ron had just given me a bug habitat a few minutes earlier and he was my…