photos by Greg Hofmann

August 19, 2004

Two days ago the first of three Anise Swallowtail chrysalises yielded an adult butterfly. This morning the second one completed its metamorphosis – note its chrysalis at left.

Tricia Wilson carried it outside under the shelter of a butterfly net, in case it decided to take flight before we got it ouside the Visitors Center.

It rested a while on the anise plant it had grown up on, then flew to a nearby bush, and not long after that it was off leading its new life on the Reserve.