Monarch - Day 25
25 days after hatching from an egg, 9 days after becoming a chrysalis, this was at 6am, by 8pm the female monarch was out and ready to go free.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- SubPhylum
- Hexapoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
- Family
- Danaidae (Milkweed Butterflies
- Genus
- Danaus
- Species
- Danaus plexippus
Posted on September 17th, 2008 under Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Life Photo
Tags: chrysalis, Danaus plexippus, eclosion, Monarch Butterfly. 
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
wow… OK, that was amazing. I loved every minute! Now, what do you have for an encore?
September 19th, 2008 at 3:00 am
That’s so exciting! Thanks for sharing those. I may have missed this somewhere, but what kind of camera did you use to get those awesome close up shots?
September 19th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
@Oliemadottie: Thanks!
I used a Canon EOS 1DmkII for all the photos.
The lens was a Canon 100mm macro and I used extension tubes for most of them. For the images of the monarch egg and the 1st and second instars I also used a 1.4x teleconverter with the extension tubes.