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Taken while on holidays, added some textures

My butterfly with an added texture. Its wings were fully opened in this photo

My monarch hatched today, she is beautiful and what an amazing thing to witness. She hatched around 3.00pm this afternoon and as it takes so long for her to dry her wings I kept her overnight and will release her tomorrow morning when it warms up. I am watching another caterpillar at the moment and hope to get photos of him changing into a chrysalis

A couple of weeks ago I found a bush full of Monarch butterfly caterpillars and this chrysalis, I carefully took the branch from the bush and have been keeping it safe and sound and watching the amazing changes. When I first got it it was a gorgeous green with gold lines and spots over the last couple of days the chrysalis has become more and more translucent and I can see the butterfly through it now. Im hoping to be able to take photos of the whole process of it hatching out drying its wings and then releasing it back into the wild so the process starts all over again. Stay tuned and keep your fingers crossed
IT HATCHED THIS AFTERNOON. I will post photos tonight

I was in the garden this morning and noticed several of these little damselflies hanging around. This one sat still long enough for me to take its photo. It looked like it was having morning tea as it appeared to have something in its mout