Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Plant it and they will come Monarchs and Pollinators, 3 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
My BST emerged this morning--so exciting! :-)

I knew he was getting close and was hovering around, fussing about a larger container for him to move around in, when all of a sudden, the top of the chrysalis split open, and there was his head! I picked up the small stick he was on and stepped outside and placed the stick next to a leaf on one of my salvias. His little insect legs were emerging by then and he grabbed onto the salvia leaf and pulled himself out of the chrysalis and onto the leaf. He's been resting there happily ever since, moving around a little. Then I felt a few raindrops and put an umbrella over the plant--LOL! :-)

One pic is of the empty chrysalis. In one pic you can see him still all crumpled looking right after he emerged. Based on the yellow dots at the end of his wings, he appears to be male!! :-)