{"id":9233,"date":"2019-09-03T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9233"},"modified":"2019-09-03T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:06:47","slug":"september-3-morning-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"September 3 morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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   <\/strong>On August 31 we showed pictures of a Painted Lady <\/strong> chrysalis that Jochen M\u00f6hr found hanging from a garden tool.  Jochen asked me (Jeremy Tatum) when the adult butterfly would emerge, and I think I replied something to the effect that it would emerge as soon as he stopped looking at it.  Jochen took up the challenge and engaged in a three-day staring match with the butterfly – and he won!  After three days the butterfly gave up and emerged while Jochen was still there ready with his camera.  Jochen’s patience was rewarded with a fine sequence of photographs showing the increase in colour of the chrysalis, culminating in the final miracle of the emergence of the butterfly.<\/p>\n

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3 days before eclosion (emergence)<\/p>\n

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1 day before emergence<\/p>\n

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19 hours before emergence<\/p>\n

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12 hours before emergence<\/p>\n

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5 hours before emergence<\/p>\n

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1 hour 20 minutes before emergence<\/p>\n

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20 minutes before emergence<\/p>\n

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Starting to emerge<\/p>\n

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Nearly out<\/p>\n

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10 minutes after emergence, its wings expanded but still limp<\/p>\n

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   Jochen noted that the haustellum (proboscis) was initially made of two semicylindrical tubes (see penultimate photograph) which then have to be zipped together to form a single cylindrical tube, which the butterfly then coils into a tight spiral (last photograph).  Jochen also noticed that the newly-emerged butterfly emitted a red fluid (meconium), consisting of waste matter accumulated by the caterpillar. <\/p>\n

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