I love butterflies. Their spectacular transformation is such a beautiful analogy to our own human journey of growth and awakening.
Unfortunately all of nature doesn’t appear to be in agreement with my sentiments. To our collective horror, my daughter and I witnessed a wasp tearing a caterpillar to shreds a couple of weeks ago in our yard. Consequently we were instantly inspired to create an impromptu monarch village via the butterfly boxes that are temporarily parked on my dining room table. Admittedly it feels a little “Silence of the Lambs” in there, but we have yet to make any skin suits out of the neighbors.
The butterflies are lovely and they bring such joy to all of us whenever we release them. However we have yet to sit for hours to watch every stage of their development. In all fairness to us, we can’t sit for hours doing anything. Given this short attention span challenge we face, I thought that it would be interesting to record one of our monarch caterpillars changing to chrysalis form so we could speed it up. The video is only about a minute long, but the actual process shown here took several hours.
Feel free to share with your children. It’s fascinating to watch this wild caterpillar in action. 🙂
Hugs to you! 🙂 Jo
This is the youtube link. https://youtu.be/BEFIUzgN5qY
Momentum of Joy 
Jun 06, 2018 @ 05:43:55
Me too!!! I saw this fbook fantastic Jo 🙂
Jun 06, 2018 @ 07:03:56
Thank you love!!!! 😘
Jun 06, 2018 @ 11:59:28
Your welcome 🙂
Jun 06, 2018 @ 08:36:44
I love this!!! thank you!! xo
Jun 06, 2018 @ 08:41:53
And I love you! 😘❤️
Jun 06, 2018 @ 16:13:47
And I love you too!!!! Can you please do the quite impossible and videotape it changing into a butterfly???? xoxo
Jun 07, 2018 @ 10:21:10
I’m going to try to catch the jail break (a.k.a. emerging from the chrysalis) but I’m not sure if my camera will cooperate. **Pls note – actual problem is with operator, not camera! 😉
Jun 08, 2018 @ 10:18:46
LOL! If there’s a will, there’s a way and Jo will find it – of that I’m most sure! xoxoox
Jun 06, 2018 @ 08:45:23
Beautiful!! I envy you, I have to travel to Michoacán to see a monarch.
Jun 06, 2018 @ 08:48:25
That is probably my favorite memory of Mexico. The kids and I have talked about that a million times. I desperately want to take my kids to see that. Is it crazy dangerous down there nowadays?
Jun 06, 2018 @ 09:09:30
Yes. I think it´s improved a little, so I would not say crazy dangerous, but definitely dangerous unfortunately.
Jun 06, 2018 @ 12:25:26
Whoa! That’s a crazy cool video! Thanks for sharing!
Jun 06, 2018 @ 13:36:50
🙂 I think that they are incredible! ❤️
Jun 07, 2018 @ 09:28:44
Love this! (I loved the Silence of the Lambs, as well!) Brilliant and fun idea to do with the kiddos! I will be following suit, hopefully not becoming a suit! Sorry! I just can’t help it! LMAO! XOXO
Jun 07, 2018 @ 10:14:32
Ha! I was going to find a way to fit some derivation of “it’s rubs the lotion on it’s skin” into the paragraph, but I figured that the joke would be lost on most and probably seriously disturbing. Thank you for getting the joke I went with instead! 😉
Jun 07, 2018 @ 10:21:52
“…rubs lotion on it’s skin…” Oh, my! Really in tears now with laughter! Depravity and I !!!
Jun 07, 2018 @ 10:24:26
We say that every once in a while and I roll with laughter every damn time!