If you need a sign of hope, here's a monarch butterfly sighting for you:
Two weeks ago, my spouse moved milkweed plants from the other house. Did we also transport monarch eggs? We had six caterpillars at one point. We ended up with at least 3 chrysalises, and yesterday, a butterfly emerged out of one of them.
The chrysalis was hanging off the table, and we tried to avoid the area for a week. Yesterday morning, our efforts paid off. We watched the butterfly for a bit, and then we went to church.
My spouse returned in time to watch the butterfly fly away. Was it confused by being six stories off the ground? It did take some time for the butterfly to adjust to the strange way the wind works in the U of the condo building. It landed on the top of a palm tree and then it flew away towards the Arts Park.
And this morning, the 2 other chrysalises have butterflies emerging.
We may not have the kind of thriving butterfly gardens that we've had elsewhere, but there are 3 monarchs in the world today that weren't there last week because of our little 6th floor balcony butterfly garden.
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