I bought a swan plant for my daughter so she could experience the wonder of it.....but she was over it within a couple of days LOL. Then I witnessed a wasp literally sucking the life out a caterpillar. Awful!!! After seeing that I couldn't just leave them outside and vulnerable (they are so cute when they hatch) so I decided to bring the plant inside...keep them safe LOL Anyway, long story short I have 22 Chrysalis babies ready to hatch, I can't wait!!. Thanks for sharing :o) I am addicted!!
this is great infomation... i am currently writing a short children's story this morning for an online educational module. it is about KRISA, the happy butterfly. this video gave me a vivid imaghes of how they emerge.
Two boys on the left and two girls on the right. I started raising monarch butterflies late last year and had 13 of them. My goal for this year was 100. So far, I counted 163 of them with more to come. The entire process from egg to caterpillar to Chrysalis to butterfly is truly amazing and this video is very educational. 🐛🦋👍😊
I enjoyed watching this video. I’ve been raising monarch butterflies for several years. It always amazes me to see this beautiful creature emerge from its chrysalis. I talk about the Monarch butterflies into the garden group, which I belong to in northeastern, Pennsylvania. I urge our members to plant native milkweed and n their gardens where it will not be disturbed but monitored. I found this year was not a good year for Monarchs.
i’m taking care of 3 right now and one is already hanging upside down in a j shape making all sorts of webs it’s so cool i’m so excited to see it turn into a chrysalis ^^
I remember once when I was younger I had a little habitat and a kit to grow 5 caterpillars (I don't remember what species). The caterpillars came in a jar with breathing holes on the top and caterpillar food on the bottom. Four got up to the top of the jar and cocooned while the last one died somehow. I took the pad with the cocoons out of the jar and into the habitat. Like over a week later, only three of them had emerged, the last one had turned black and never emerged, so that one failed. But as if that wasn't enough, one the three sole survivors had misshapen wings. Later that day I repeatedly threw the butterflies into the air to release them, after a while both of the perfect ones managed to fly away, as for the poor one with misshapen wings, I placed it on a plant in a field and let it be free that way, I tested the little one but of course it couldn't fly because of its misshapen wings. Many years before that I was visiting my grandmother and grandfather with my family and they had some wooden wind chimes laying on the floor of their garden and I saw a cocoon stuck to one of the tubes. I gently peeled it off and we took it back home with us. A long while later (from what I can remember) my mother and I walked into the kitchen and found the cocoon transparent and empty. We looked at the window and saw a cabbage white butterfly on it, on the inside so it obviously came from the cocoon I found. My mother caught it and then released it out in the garden where it flew away to freedom.
Just found this video after witnessing a monarch caterpillar form into a crystalys within hours. I'm fascinated by the gold thread looking line around it. Truly looks like 24k. It's been about a week and my husband and I just witnessed, what looked like, it taking a pee. Now has a small opening on the side so it won't be long. From Florida ❤🦋🌞😀👍👍
How about a series on the Life Cycle of the Milkweed Plant? Monarch Butterflies are not the only insect that benefits from the Milkweed Plant during its life cycle. I have counted about 24 different species of insects that nourish themselves off of the Milkweed Plants growing in my garden. Some visit during the day times and some visit at night times. Then as the plant begins its seed cycle and the leaves and petals wither away another few insects come by to nourish themselves.
Great videos! Any idea what the multiple of size of a caterpillar just out of the “egg” to the caterpillar just beginning to turn into a chrysalis? I don’t think 1000 times bigger is enough. Thanks
I believe they are! I’ll try to find the study, but there was an experiment where caterpillars were exposed to a neutral stimulus then a negative stimulus over and over under they began to expect the negative stimulus after being exposed to the neutral stimulus. Once the caterpillars had become butterflies, they were again exposed to the neutral stimulus, and they reacted as though they were expecting the negative stimulus to follow.
Thank you for capturing this, i have a bunch of Monarchs in their Chrysalis and i try to capture them leaving it, only to see them doing the Stretching their wings
I don't get how the one on the far left is a male when the veins of the wings are super thick just like the two females on the right.. I see the small oranges smudge on the left ones wing, but those veins are super thick.
Very informative Monarch videos-and you made it fun, too! I currently have quite a few caterpillars munching away on volunteer Milkweed plants along my driveway-now I know what to expect! Thankyou! :^)
The thing that fooled me at first with them is that they wander off when it's time for them to pupate. You'll see a bunch of big caterpillars on the plants one day and they'll all be gone the next. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint once you realize that it's probably not a great idea to sit idle for a week or so on a plant that's still food for your brothers and sisters. You're less likely to have your resting place eaten from out under you if you go somewhere else to pupate.
jefferson lab. You should check out the video about the structure of the butterfly's scale on its wings. The channel that studied it was "Smarter Every Day". They used an electron microscope. It's pretty cool. Should check it out sometime.
I love so much this butterfly life! His life is the trend of our life. You have describe perfectly the medium stage of this and you call the butterfly as "he" not as "it". It's great! I'm sorry for my english... I am a 🦋 What do you say about? Thank you! ❤
Was the "hatched" butterfly eating/smelling something embedded in the Chrysalis (nutrients of some sort?) Or was the butterfly just holding on until it can acclimate to its environment and its body's new capabilities?
+Jefferson Lab seeing this made me wonder what goes through its mind when it [realizes] it can fly. Its early life seems somewhat like a toddler being born into an empty house, crawling around eating the floor and walls of the room it was born in, morphing into a helicopter during a nap, then waking up in a very different body & using some type of heuristics to fly around, largely unassisted. Great footage; thanks for filming this event & sharing!
There are 2 males and 2 females. The one that you identified as male is one of the males. Now, you need to figure out which of the other three is also male.
@@ashlicarlock8274 If I understand you correctly, no. In the group of three, the one with closed wings on the left is male (you can tell by the little smudge on the mid-sized vertical stripe), the one with closed wings on the right is female and the one with open wings is male. The solitary one on the far right is female.
Hey I have question ! When i was in elementary school my brother found a monarch butterfly on the ground. It wings were intact but look crumpled like a sheet of paper that has been crushed and then straightened out again. Anyway he took it home and we fed it diluted honey. It survived like that for about two weeks before dying. I never understood why it wings were crumpled up. Did something go wrong when it came out of it's cocoon?
Because mud provides them with salt and minerals. It's usually males that you see doing this behavior. They incorporate the minerals and salts into their bodies and pass it to the female when mating. This increases the vitality of the eggs
+Jefferson Lab i love your channel in school i saw it i said when i get home im subscribing i did and i got a 100 on my science test i missed no questions SCIENCE 🔬
Btw, what was going on with its abdomen? I know the abdomen is much slimmer on an adult monarch. We raised monarchs years ago, and, as a teacher, it was always rewarding to see learning in real time.
@@shirleylamer436 Don't know. Could be individual vein-like tubes that receives the fluid, or it could be more on an individual cell basis, like how a wilting flower 'perks up' when you provide it with water.
Is this in real time? If not how much time does it actually take . I m asking cause I've got a butterfly emerging and its been hours and its still not fully out..i tried helping but i fear it'll make it weak?
@@JeffersonLab From what I see, the veins of the top 3 butterflies are about the same thickness and I don't see the scent gland of the top left butterfly either....looks like I still don't have the hang of it :(.
You can only tell that the thickness of the veins are different when the wings are open. Since the other three have their wings closed, you have too look for the 'smudge' that's pointed out earlier in the video.
+Shadowknight5518 Nope, just hit a period where various schedules aren't aligning. But, there will be a video later this week (a full-length lecture on quantum physics) followed by five Frostbite Theater videos over a five week period, starting on the first Friday in March.
Man...that first full wing outstretch is probably one of the best feelings ever 😁
I don't think enough people realize how beautiful nature is to our world. There's a purpose for everything.
there’s a purpose for mosquitos and ants? 💀
@@idontknowanymore2707 There must be, but that doesn’t stop me from killing the ones around my home. LOL
I love hearing all of the birds singing in the background of this video.😇😍🥰🐦
I bought a swan plant for my daughter so she could experience the wonder of it.....but she was over it within a couple of days LOL.
Then I witnessed a wasp literally sucking the life out a caterpillar. Awful!!! After seeing that I couldn't just leave them outside and vulnerable (they are so cute when they hatch) so I decided to bring the plant inside...keep them safe LOL
Anyway, long story short I have 22 Chrysalis babies ready to hatch, I can't wait!!. Thanks for sharing :o) I am addicted!!
Metapod evolves into Butterfree but in real life
this is great infomation... i am currently writing a short children's story this morning for an online educational module. it is about KRISA, the happy butterfly. this video gave me a vivid imaghes of how they emerge.
From left to right, male, male, female, female.
Also I just realized butterflies are giant mosquitos with fancy wings. Odd.
nicolhaidi A gold star for your correct identifications! 🌟
Jefferson Lab yay thank you :>
+Jefferson Lab isn't that a black star
+The Piscis It's gold on my screen.
I see it now,on the UA-cam app it's black
2:15 who here just heard a cat?? Also, this is basically me trying to get out of bed in the morning lol
Nah you are not the only one, I heard a cat mmmmeeeeeooowwwww too! Lol.
Me
Lol lol lol lol
@@katielovell2444 the Cat didn’t meow, it T r i l l e d
Two boys on the left and two girls on the right. I started raising monarch butterflies late last year and had 13 of them. My goal for this year was 100. So far, I counted 163 of them with more to come. The entire process from egg to caterpillar to Chrysalis to butterfly is truly amazing and this video is very educational. 🐛🦋👍😊
Good job!
Awesome! I raise Monarch’s as well. ❤️
I enjoyed watching this video. I’ve been raising monarch butterflies for several years. It always amazes me to see this beautiful creature emerge from its chrysalis. I talk about the Monarch butterflies into the garden group, which I belong to in northeastern, Pennsylvania. I urge our members to plant native milkweed and n their gardens where it will not be disturbed but monitored.
I found this year was not a good year for Monarchs.
Is it difficult for a butterfly to emerge from the chrysalis?
Every butterfly has done it, but I can't say that it looks like fun.
i’m taking care of 3 right now and one is already hanging upside down in a j shape making all sorts of webs it’s so cool i’m so excited to see it turn into a chrysalis ^^
I remember once when I was younger I had a little habitat and a kit to grow 5 caterpillars (I don't remember what species). The caterpillars came in a jar with breathing holes on the top and caterpillar food on the bottom. Four got up to the top of the jar and cocooned while the last one died somehow. I took the pad with the cocoons out of the jar and into the habitat. Like over a week later, only three of them had emerged, the last one had turned black and never emerged, so that one failed. But as if that wasn't enough, one the three sole survivors had misshapen wings. Later that day I repeatedly threw the butterflies into the air to release them, after a while both of the perfect ones managed to fly away, as for the poor one with misshapen wings, I placed it on a plant in a field and let it be free that way, I tested the little one but of course it couldn't fly because of its misshapen wings.
Many years before that I was visiting my grandmother and grandfather with my family and they had some wooden wind chimes laying on the floor of their garden and I saw a cocoon stuck to one of the tubes. I gently peeled it off and we took it back home with us. A long while later (from what I can remember) my mother and I walked into the kitchen and found the cocoon transparent and empty. We looked at the window and saw a cabbage white butterfly on it, on the inside so it obviously came from the cocoon I found. My mother caught it and then released it out in the garden where it flew away to freedom.
PurpleMNinja facts
PurpleMNinja you just wrote a hole paragraph and that is intense
Painted lady butterfly. They still sell the habitat.
Left two, male. Right two, female. I thought I heard a kitty in the background!
That butterfly just seconds from emerging and already was about to be some cats dinner.
:0! Butterflies can meow? Illuminati confirmed! 🔼
Just found this video after witnessing a monarch caterpillar form into a crystalys within hours. I'm fascinated by the gold thread looking line around it. Truly looks like 24k. It's been about a week and my husband and I just witnessed, what looked like, it taking a pee. Now has a small opening on the side so it won't be long. From Florida ❤🦋🌞😀👍👍
The gold is just beautiful!! One of the chrysalis I have just turned clear just 2 hours ago. I hope I catch it emerging !
Great video! Just learned something from my son! We found 2x males and 2x females..
How about a series on the Life Cycle of the Milkweed Plant? Monarch Butterflies are not the only insect that benefits from the Milkweed Plant during its life cycle. I have counted about 24 different species of insects that nourish themselves off of the Milkweed Plants growing in my garden. Some visit during the day times and some visit at night times. Then as the plant begins its seed cycle and the leaves and petals wither away another few insects come by to nourish themselves.
Butterfly on extreme left with wings up, and butterfly with wings open are both males. Thanks for the information!,
Great videos! Any idea what the multiple of size of a caterpillar just out of the “egg” to the caterpillar just beginning to turn into a chrysalis? I don’t think 1000 times bigger is enough. Thanks
two males on the left and two females on the right
I wonder if it’s the same life/consciousness after such a change. 😳
I believe they are! I’ll try to find the study, but there was an experiment where caterpillars were exposed to a neutral stimulus then a negative stimulus over and over under they began to expect the negative stimulus after being exposed to the neutral stimulus.
Once the caterpillars had become butterflies, they were again exposed to the neutral stimulus, and they reacted as though they were expecting the negative stimulus to follow.
Yup thesmudge in the wing almost always look orange
Thank you for capturing this, i have a bunch of Monarchs in their Chrysalis and i try to capture them leaving it, only to see them doing the Stretching their wings
I saw this is my school and I’m seeing the beautiful butterfly emerge again ❤❤❤
the male is the one with the open wings. Its harder to tell with the wings closed, but the rest look like females. Again his color looks more vibrant.
One of the ones with close wings is also male.
It scared me when the body just fell out
from left to right, the butterflies are male, male, female, female.
Great videos, both before and after. May I ask what camera setup you are using. Also, love the background "noise"
That was shot with a Canon 70D using a 100mm macro lens.
I don't get how the one on the far left is a male when the veins of the wings are super thick just like the two females on the right.. I see the small oranges smudge on the left ones wing, but those veins are super thick.
The smudge is what's important when their songs are closed. You don't see if the veins are thick or thin unless the wings are open.
Very informative Monarch videos-and you made it fun, too! I currently have quite a few caterpillars munching away on volunteer Milkweed plants along my driveway-now I know what to expect! Thankyou! :^)
The thing that fooled me at first with them is that they wander off when it's time for them to pupate. You'll see a bunch of big caterpillars on the plants one day and they'll all be gone the next. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint once you realize that it's probably not a great idea to sit idle for a week or so on a plant that's still food for your brothers and sisters. You're less likely to have your resting place eaten from out under you if you go somewhere else to pupate.
Lol! Looking with interest to this process, and the beauty ahead! ( this is in western PA.) :^)
@@JeffersonLab the butterfly 🦋 is so beautiful! Can you actually touch one gently and how?
@@allysanchez7275 When they are newly emerged it isn't difficult to have them walk onto your finger.
@@JeffersonLab true.
ummm its 2 males and 2 females right??
Right!
Patrick: 😭 WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME!
How did you find that
You plant the plants the caterpillars eat for food.
jefferson lab. You should check out the video about the structure of the butterfly's scale on its wings. The channel that studied it was "Smarter Every Day". They used an electron microscope. It's pretty cool. Should check it out sometime.
I love so much this butterfly life! His life is the trend of our life. You have describe perfectly the medium stage of this and you call the butterfly as "he" not as "it". It's great!
I'm sorry for my english... I am a 🦋
What do you say about? Thank you! ❤
2:40, do their bodies usually pulsate like that? GRoss
It's a boy!
Save the monarchs!
I see two male monarch butterflies and two female monarch butterflies on the flowers.
Then your butterfly vision is 20/20!
WOW. Amazing! Anyway left side has 2 boys and the right side has 2 girls. Am I right?
Mr. Hymn You are correct!
The amazing wisdom of our Creator!! All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, the Lord God made them all!
1 boy 3 girls?
my favorite one is the butterfly
pls make Polymer Balls in Liquid Nitrogen
Was that a time lapse video? How long was the process from when the butterfly broke through the chrysalis until it was “free”?
Not time lapse. Other than the cross dissolve at the end, what you're seeing is in real time.
on the left is two boys on of the boys had there wings open and on the right there was the girls
That thing is huge!
i think the two butterflies on the left are boys and th ones on the right are girls
I saw one boy and two girl butterflies.
There were four butterflies in the photo...
more to the bottom left are boys and other 2 are girls and they are closer to the top right
UNBELIEVABLE ---ID--Thank you !!!
two boys on left, two girls on right
Was the "hatched" butterfly eating/smelling something embedded in the Chrysalis (nutrients of some sort?) Or was the butterfly just holding on until it can acclimate to its environment and its body's new capabilities?
+Amoxycycline No, there's no food there. It's just waiting until it's ready for its first flight.
the one with the wings open is the boy
There are four butterflies. More than one is a male.
Great video! Thank you.
Incredible. Can we see it start to flap its wings, or did that not get caught on camera?
***** This particular butterfly wandered out of frame before it began any sort of wing flapping.
+Jefferson Lab seeing this made me wonder what goes through its mind when it [realizes] it can fly. Its early life seems somewhat like a toddler being born into an empty house, crawling around eating the floor and walls of the room it was born in, morphing into a helicopter during a nap, then waking up in a very different body & using some type of heuristics to fly around, largely unassisted. Great footage; thanks for filming this event & sharing!
kitty wants to investigate! 😸
How does it lose that big thing in it's back? 2:40 - 2:50
+Dan The Dan The fluid in the abdomen is pumped into the wings.
I think theres only one boy
Fernando Medellin Actually, there are two.
Thanks for another great video!
Thank you, just amazing video
The one with the wing flat and opened is the Male. The other three are female.
There are 2 males and 2 females. The one that you identified as male is one of the males. Now, you need to figure out which of the other three is also male.
@@JeffersonLab two females n male on the left and one male one the right.
@@ashlicarlock8274 If I understand you correctly, no. In the group of three, the one with closed wings on the left is male (you can tell by the little smudge on the mid-sized vertical stripe), the one with closed wings on the right is female and the one with open wings is male. The solitary one on the far right is female.
IT ATE WORMY!!!!
Absolutely 💯 beautiful I think 1x boy an 2 x female butterfly
from downunder 🇦🇺✝️❤️
We think there are 3 boy and 1 girl.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Your show was awesome!!!🎉😊
WOW!!! Nature's always amazing...
ilprediletto God is amazingly!!
Make more videos it's been 4 months
+Jaxon Shrewsbury We're in the middle of one now.
Two males and two females. I HAVE LIKE 300 MALES AND 200 FEMALES!
Just beautiful birth, thank you for this wonderful video
Hmm, I heard a cat
Thats awesome thank you sir😊
I volunteer ed at a farm and witness this. They don't waste anytime they strat procreation immediately it was fascinating to observed
Fantastic time lapse footage!
Thanks, but that's not time lapse. Other than the cross dissolve towards the end of the sequence, what you're seeing is shown in real time.
Am I the only one who thinks this is really freaky with all of its tentacles waving around? Ugh
Butterflies don't have tentacles. What you're seeing are legs, antennae and its proboscis.
Hey I have question ! When i was in elementary school my brother found a monarch butterfly on the ground. It wings were intact but look crumpled like a sheet of paper that has been crushed and then straightened out again. Anyway he took it home and we fed it diluted honey. It survived like that for about two weeks before dying. I never understood why it wings were crumpled up. Did something go wrong when it came out of it's cocoon?
Possibly. If they fall from their chrysalis before their wings have fully 'inflated', it can cause problems.
Birth defect
1 male and 3 female
Nope.
Does the female have a scent gland somewhere else? Do the males use the gland (I'm assuming yes, obviously) to get well... what scent exactly?
@Jefferson Lab just wanted to know why the butterflies roam in cool soft mud more like clay during winters?
I don't know. I can't say that I've ever seen that behavior. We don't get butterflies in the winter in my part of the country.
Because mud provides them with salt and minerals.
It's usually males that you see doing this behavior. They incorporate the minerals and salts into their bodies and pass it to the female when mating. This increases the vitality of the eggs
Cool
On the left side its 2 boys and the right side its 2 girls
***** My answer too.
***** Correct! You get a gold star. 🌟
xrogaan You get a gold star, too! 🌟
+Jefferson Lab i love your channel in school i saw it i said when i get home im subscribing i did and i got a 100 on my science test i missed no questions SCIENCE 🔬
Btw, what was going on with its abdomen? I know the abdomen is much slimmer on an adult monarch. We raised monarchs years ago, and, as a teacher, it was always rewarding to see learning in real time.
janetd57 It's pumping fluids out of its abdomen and into its wings. It's what gets the wings into flight configuration.
@@JeffersonLab so then those truly ARE veins that receive the abdominal fluid?
@@shirleylamer436 Don't know. Could be individual vein-like tubes that receives the fluid, or it could be more on an individual cell basis, like how a wilting flower 'perks up' when you provide it with water.
Is this in real time? If not how much time does it actually take . I m asking cause I've got a butterfly emerging and its been hours and its still not fully out..i tried helping but i fear it'll make it weak?
Other than the dissolve at the end, this is real time.
This is quite disturbing I say, but for you guys it's pretty, but for me, not for you, This is unsettling.
btw 2020?
From left female, male, female,female... there is only 1 male whose wing is wide open....
Prithviraj Mendon Take a closer look at the leftmost one. It's a male.
Thanks
Two on the left are boys, two on the right are girls
Good job!
I think the top three are girls and the bottom one is a boy. Is that right?
Not quite.
@@JeffersonLab From what I see, the veins of the top 3 butterflies are about the same thickness and I don't see the scent gland of the top left butterfly either....looks like I still don't have the hang of it :(.
You can only tell that the thickness of the veins are different when the wings are open. Since the other three have their wings closed, you have too look for the 'smudge' that's pointed out earlier in the video.
Cool video guys, Thanks!
Now he can live and make a garden beautiful
So crazy how nature works
Soooo is this channel dead?
+Shadowknight5518 Nope, just hit a period where various schedules aren't aligning. But, there will be a video later this week (a full-length lecture on quantum physics) followed by five Frostbite Theater videos over a five week period, starting on the first Friday in March.
Three are girls and one boy
Nope, it's two and two.
Left to right: female, male, female, female
Erm correction: male male female female
Zachary Lim That one's got it.
Make more videos please
+Pyro Technic We are! At a minimum, the next one will be early March.
Yay!
Beautiful!
3 girls and a boy
Close, but not quite.
I have 2 chrysalis that I'm waiting to eclose. My first time raising Monarchs.
This is truly magnificent. And not normal in anyway
That was beautiful