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WHYYY DO THEY INSIST ON CHOOSING THESE RANDOM SPOTS?


NC Mountains. Found this dude (I.D. app says Monarch) on my mulch bag while planting more plants and there is more than one and this is not the first time 😞 I guess I'll have to get more 😆

by Zucchini_Jones

19 Comments

  3. trucker96961

    They just know? Right?? Lol

    We’ve definitely found them in weird places.

  4. sammille25

    I am so paranoid that one is going to appear on my car. I always do a check to see if anyone made some poor decisions

  5. PeasiusMaximus

    We were on vacation and didn’t move our car for a few days, and just as we were about to drive home from vacation, I found a chrysalis ON our tire!!!! Jeepers. Google said to tie a bit of dental floss to the hooking on part, remove the chrysalis and relocate to a safer spot. I found a nice patch of milkweed near by and put it there. Hope it worked out for that little guy.

  8. TemporaryAshamed9525

    My cats have picked excellent, well-hidden (to me) spots to metamorphose and I have had 6 chrysalises eaten 😭

  11. LoMaSS

    New bag of mulch – $3.50

    New Monarch butterfly – priceless.

  13. MsQualityPanda

    The first year we raised a monarch I didn’t know what I was doing and had the caterpillar in a big jar with a mesh lid.

    The thing escaped, by squeezing through the mesh holes and we thought it was gone until my then 2-year-old found it in a j shape underneath a shelf in the kitchen! I got more mesh and made it a fortress to protect it from the dogs and cats until it finished its chrysalis and then used string to move it somewhere more logical. They are silly guys.

  14. TeamChance2726

    youre telling me 😭😭 i once had a monarch caterpillar about to pupate in her container, i had cracked the lid a tiny bit so she could have more ventilation (my methods at the time couldve used some work…) and when i came back she was nowhere to be found, i searched the whole room…

    thank GOD i didnt step on a random envelope that was on the floor, because the tiny idiot somehow made a chrysalis on the underside of the envelope on the floor??????

    still have no clue how or why THAT was the spot she chose tho LOL

  15. Opinionated_Oddling

    We had one daredevil make it all the way to the gutter. Like, whyyyyyyy so high? That must have been like running a 10k for them!
    I have successfully relocated quite a few, but you do have to wait until the chrysalis has hardened.

  16. FAX_ME_DANK

    The pics from this post deserve a subreddit

  17. MountainLaurelArt

    This reminds me of the stupid dove nests subreddit. Same vibes.

  18. talazws

    https://preview.redd.it/qpmvuyvxm1pf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2e3ab826d7d53c888d7b0b87d311bfd2b29d068

    Hanging from a tomato cage! The whole plant and cage had tipped over and I was in the middle of staking it back up when I noticed the chrysalis. Later that day I found a second one hanging from a wooden pallet I was moving across the garden. Somehow neither got damaged and now I’m watching them daily! A bunch of milkweed came up right outside my vegetable garden this year, so now I get to find random chrysalises.

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