Making Her Debut

Our monarch eclosed today. This video is about a minute long, but it covers about 20 minutes. I'm not sure how the quality of the video will be once I post it, but on my computer, I can actually see the wings get longer as she flutters them. We released her (it was a girl) this afternoon. As we did, we noticed another female monarch laying more eggs on our milkweed! After checking over our plants, we found 22 baby caterpillars and several eggs. We brought many of the caterpillars inside, hoping they will survive a little better in a controlled environment.