Adult Monarch Butterfly Emerges from its Chrysalis

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  • Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
  • After nine days of behind the scenes changes, the adult monarch butterfly is ready to meet the world!
    Is it a boy or a girl? We'll show you how to tell the difference!
    How did the chrysalis from in the first place? If you missed that video, you can watch it here: • Monarch Caterpillar Ch...
    How did it all begin? You can see the caterpillar hatching from its egg here: • Monarch Butterfly Egg ...
    The complete story of the life cycle of the monarch butterfly is available here: • Life Cycle of the Mona...
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  • @evanisovich
    @evanisovich 4 роки тому +87

    Man...that first full wing outstretch is probably one of the best feelings ever 😁

  • @melissawarren7095
    @melissawarren7095 3 роки тому +26

    I don't think enough people realize how beautiful nature is to our world. There's a purpose for everything.

    • @idontknowanymore2707
      @idontknowanymore2707 Рік тому +1

      there’s a purpose for mosquitos and ants? 💀

    • @DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY
      @DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY 9 місяців тому

      @@idontknowanymore2707 There must be, but that doesn’t stop me from killing the ones around my home. LOL

  • @DragoniteloverPokemonLover
    @DragoniteloverPokemonLover Рік тому +3

    Metapod evolves into Butterfree but in real life

  • @angela3196
    @angela3196 3 роки тому +11

    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!!

  • @DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY
    @DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY 9 місяців тому +1

    I love hearing all of the birds singing in the background of this video.😇😍🥰🐦

  • @sirMAXX77
    @sirMAXX77 8 років тому +10

    That butterfly just seconds from emerging and already was about to be some cats dinner.

  • @higpitnaman
    @higpitnaman 4 роки тому +6

    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.

  • @nicolhaidi
    @nicolhaidi 9 років тому +61

    From left to right, male, male, female, female.
    Also I just realized butterflies are giant mosquitos with fancy wings. Odd.

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  9 років тому +13

      nicolhaidi A gold star for your correct identifications! 🌟

    • @nicolhaidi
      @nicolhaidi 9 років тому +4

      Jefferson Lab yay thank you :>

    • @Chickennuggetjoes
      @Chickennuggetjoes 8 років тому +2

      +Jefferson Lab isn't that a black star

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  8 років тому +4

      +The Piscis It's gold on my screen.

    • @Chickennuggetjoes
      @Chickennuggetjoes 8 років тому

      I see it now,on the UA-cam app it's black

  • @SuperJuneM
    @SuperJuneM 8 років тому +42

    2:15 who here just heard a cat?? Also, this is basically me trying to get out of bed in the morning lol

  • @janetd57
    @janetd57 9 років тому +6

    Left two, male. Right two, female. I thought I heard a kitty in the background!

  • @shermendlakk
    @shermendlakk 5 років тому +18

    :0! Butterflies can meow? Illuminati confirmed! 🔼

  • @barbsrose
    @barbsrose 10 місяців тому +2

    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.

    • @tenderpawsm473
      @tenderpawsm473 5 місяців тому

      Is it difficult for a butterfly to emerge from the chrysalis?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  5 місяців тому

      Every butterfly has done it, but I can't say that it looks like fun.

  • @idontknowanymore2707
    @idontknowanymore2707 Рік тому +3

    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 ^^

  • @kearanbrown3228
    @kearanbrown3228 4 місяці тому

    I saw this is my school and I’m seeing the beautiful butterfly emerge again ❤❤❤

  • @purplemninja3885
    @purplemninja3885 5 років тому +11

    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.

  • @riseandrun1
    @riseandrun1 11 місяців тому

    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

  • @MyEarthEcoNut
    @MyEarthEcoNut 7 років тому

    Thanks for another great video!

  • @Merryan1
    @Merryan1 6 років тому +1

    Great video! Thank you.

  • @TMS5100
    @TMS5100 7 років тому

    kitty wants to investigate! 😸

  • @k3ntris
    @k3ntris 9 років тому

    That thing is huge!

  • @craigquinata9594
    @craigquinata9594 2 місяці тому

    Great video! Just learned something from my son! We found 2x males and 2x females..

  • @santadiaz7334
    @santadiaz7334 4 роки тому

    Yup thesmudge in the wing almost always look orange

  • @m809krazee
    @m809krazee 3 роки тому +3

    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

  • @kimuseni
    @kimuseni 4 роки тому

    Thanks

  • @womensassistancecollective
    @womensassistancecollective 2 роки тому

    Beautiful and informative! Great video thanks for sharing.

  • @MyPaloma2023
    @MyPaloma2023 5 років тому +4

    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! :^)

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  5 років тому +4

      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.

    • @MyPaloma2023
      @MyPaloma2023 5 років тому +1

      Lol! Looking with interest to this process, and the beauty ahead! ( this is in western PA.) :^)

    • @allysanchez7275
      @allysanchez7275 2 роки тому

      @@JeffersonLab the butterfly 🦋 is so beautiful! Can you actually touch one gently and how?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  2 роки тому

      @@allysanchez7275 When they are newly emerged it isn't difficult to have them walk onto your finger.

    • @allysanchez7275
      @allysanchez7275 2 роки тому

      @@JeffersonLab true.

  • @dianapengitore8002
    @dianapengitore8002 2 роки тому +4

    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. 🐛🦋👍😊

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  2 роки тому +2

      Good job!

    • @barbsrose
      @barbsrose 10 місяців тому

      Awesome! I raise Monarch’s as well. ❤️

  • @matthew_harris
    @matthew_harris 4 роки тому +2

    Great videos, both before and after. May I ask what camera setup you are using. Also, love the background "noise"

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  4 роки тому +1

      That was shot with a Canon 70D using a 100mm macro lens.

  • @bazookajohnson8579
    @bazookajohnson8579 8 років тому +1

    pls make Polymer Balls in Liquid Nitrogen

  • @reubenguttenberg7405
    @reubenguttenberg7405 9 місяців тому

    Patrick: 😭 WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME!

  • @wesharetestimonies8221
    @wesharetestimonies8221 4 роки тому +7

    I wonder if it’s the same life/consciousness after such a change. 😳

    • @clcallag
      @clcallag 3 роки тому +7

      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.

  • @sardex9000
    @sardex9000 3 роки тому +2

    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! ❤

  • @donaldleblanc7307
    @donaldleblanc7307 3 роки тому +1

    It scared me when the body just fell out

  • @derinxspaghetti
    @derinxspaghetti 2 роки тому

    my favorite one is the butterfly

  • @kathybrant571
    @kathybrant571 2 роки тому +3

    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 ❤🦋🌞😀👍👍

    • @suewatanabe2878
      @suewatanabe2878 10 місяців тому

      The gold is just beautiful!! One of the chrysalis I have just turned clear just 2 hours ago. I hope I catch it emerging !

  • @lauraroberts9039
    @lauraroberts9039 9 місяців тому

    two boys on left, two girls on right

  • @sebastiantvang3469
    @sebastiantvang3469 4 роки тому

    VERY COOOLLLL

  • @hectichive889
    @hectichive889 7 років тому

    2:40, do their bodies usually pulsate like that? GRoss

  • @dylanruppert4547
    @dylanruppert4547 8 років тому +7

    two males on the left and two females on the right

  • @curtflirt2
    @curtflirt2 3 роки тому

    Pretty

  • @ladylibrum7145
    @ladylibrum7145 2 роки тому

    Butterfly on extreme left with wings up, and butterfly with wings open are both males. Thanks for the information!,

  • @akshaysanjayshinde2253
    @akshaysanjayshinde2253 3 роки тому +1

    Thats awesome thank you sir😊

  • @bruceb3786
    @bruceb3786 3 роки тому

    UNBELIEVABLE ---ID--Thank you !!!

  • @albathomas246
    @albathomas246 2 роки тому

    Thank you, just amazing video

  • @chibistk
    @chibistk Рік тому

    Your show was awesome!!!🎉😊

  • @chaoflaka8132
    @chaoflaka8132 3 роки тому

    IT ATE WORMY!!!!

  • @hawkforce3109
    @hawkforce3109 4 роки тому

    Fantastic time lapse footage!

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  4 роки тому +3

      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.

  • @PumpkinMelon
    @PumpkinMelon 9 років тому

    That was beautiful

  • @Chronix74
    @Chronix74 9 років тому

    Cool video guys, Thanks!

  • @hyndarlinnn9285
    @hyndarlinnn9285 3 роки тому +1

    Cool

  • @jnkj13
    @jnkj13 8 років тому +2

    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.

  • @philipohmes9395
    @philipohmes9395 3 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @chiffonbeasley1390
    @chiffonbeasley1390 8 років тому

    on the left is two boys on of the boys had there wings open and on the right there was the girls

  • @albathomas246
    @albathomas246 2 роки тому

    Just beautiful birth, thank you for this wonderful video

  • @morganath
    @morganath 9 років тому

    1 boy 3 girls?

  • @user-nc5xk5xq3b
    @user-nc5xk5xq3b 2 роки тому

    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.

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  2 роки тому

      One of the ones with close wings is also male.

  • @thanroshi8514
    @thanroshi8514 9 років тому

    Amazing!

  • @browny3212
    @browny3212 3 роки тому

    Interesting

  • @alihassanhassan4382
    @alihassanhassan4382 9 років тому

    Amazingly incredible

  • @MrJeongja
    @MrJeongja 4 роки тому +1

    How did you find that

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  4 роки тому

      You plant the plants the caterpillars eat for food.

  • @barbaramaurer5942
    @barbaramaurer5942 Рік тому

    Beautiful!

  • @AxialisPsychopathy
    @AxialisPsychopathy 9 років тому +1

    WOW. Amazing! Anyway left side has 2 boys and the right side has 2 girls. Am I right?

  • @ilprediletto
    @ilprediletto 4 роки тому +1

    WOW!!! Nature's always amazing...

  • @kebab1222
    @kebab1222 9 років тому +1

    Hmm, I heard a cat

  • @neydialeman7474
    @neydialeman7474 3 роки тому

    I see two male monarch butterflies and two female monarch butterflies on the flowers.

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  3 роки тому

      Then your butterfly vision is 20/20!

  • @user-vx7qr8yp6r
    @user-vx7qr8yp6r 3 роки тому +1

    It's a boy!
    Save the monarchs!

  • @slenderman5750
    @slenderman5750 7 років тому

    This is cool!

  • @tyreseboucher6539
    @tyreseboucher6539 8 років тому

    from left to right, the butterflies are male, male, female, female.

  • @nitebylite8266
    @nitebylite8266 8 років тому

    2:02 Creepy :P

  • @kimworthing1240
    @kimworthing1240 2 місяці тому

    Absolutely 💯 beautiful I think 1x boy an 2 x female butterfly
    from downunder 🇦🇺✝️❤️

  • @sayville_silver
    @sayville_silver 5 років тому

    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.

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  5 років тому

      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.

  • @jaxonshrewsbury5993
    @jaxonshrewsbury5993 8 років тому

    Make more videos it's been 4 months

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  8 років тому

      +Jaxon Shrewsbury We're in the middle of one now.

  • @katiekawaii
    @katiekawaii 9 років тому +1

    Incredible. Can we see it start to flap its wings, or did that not get caught on camera?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  9 років тому +2

      ***** This particular butterfly wandered out of frame before it began any sort of wing flapping.

    • @augustinmouchot7358
      @augustinmouchot7358 9 років тому +1

      +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!

  • @lpssilverblue_studios3068
    @lpssilverblue_studios3068 8 років тому

    Now he can live and make a garden beautiful

  • @followingjesus2028
    @followingjesus2028 2 місяці тому

    The amazing wisdom of our Creator!! All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, the Lord God made them all!

  • @louisaperolio4086
    @louisaperolio4086 Місяць тому

    I saw one boy and two girl butterflies.

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  Місяць тому

      There were four butterflies in the photo...

  • @LeoQueen777
    @LeoQueen777 7 років тому

    @Jefferson Lab just wanted to know why the butterflies roam in cool soft mud more like clay during winters?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  7 років тому

      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.

    • @lepidlover0557
      @lepidlover0557 3 роки тому

      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

  • @Xintheclouds
    @Xintheclouds 3 роки тому

    Awww Sylvie ❤️❤️

  • @annabel2100
    @annabel2100 8 років тому

    it's beautiful and desturbing

  • @TheSwarm0
    @TheSwarm0 8 років тому

    more to the bottom left are boys and other 2 are girls and they are closer to the top right

  • @bmohr7049
    @bmohr7049 3 роки тому

    Was that a time lapse video? How long was the process from when the butterfly broke through the chrysalis until it was “free”?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  3 роки тому +1

      Not time lapse. Other than the cross dissolve at the end, what you're seeing is in real time.

  • @joedizz1608
    @joedizz1608 7 років тому +2

    ummm its 2 males and 2 females right??

  • @bestbrand1106
    @bestbrand1106 4 роки тому

    Wonder full😍😍😍😍

  • @standoughope
    @standoughope 3 роки тому

    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?

  • @collinalbicocco3025
    @collinalbicocco3025 8 місяців тому

    🦋

  • @amoxycycline9909
    @amoxycycline9909 8 років тому

    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?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  8 років тому

      +Amoxycycline No, there's no food there. It's just waiting until it's ready for its first flight.

  • @uusername7454
    @uusername7454 8 років тому

    How does it lose that big thing in it's back? 2:40 - 2:50

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  8 років тому

      +Dan The Dan The fluid in the abdomen is pumped into the wings.

  • @fjejjsjxgkosk
    @fjejjsjxgkosk 8 років тому

    Make more videos please

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  8 років тому

      +Pyro Technic We are! At a minimum, the next one will be early March.

    • @fjejjsjxgkosk
      @fjejjsjxgkosk 8 років тому

      Yay!

  • @wesharetestimonies8221
    @wesharetestimonies8221 4 роки тому

    This is truly magnificent. And not normal in anyway

  • @eaglewings7372
    @eaglewings7372 7 років тому

    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?

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  7 років тому

      Possibly. If they fall from their chrysalis before their wings have fully 'inflated', it can cause problems.

    • @portercarr7197
      @portercarr7197 6 років тому

      Birth defect

  • @michaelhatten9107
    @michaelhatten9107 4 роки тому

    i think the two butterflies on the left are boys and th ones on the right are girls

  • @tresiabiagi
    @tresiabiagi 4 роки тому

    I volunteer ed at a farm and witness this. They don't waste anytime they strat procreation immediately it was fascinating to observed

  • @MrDonalddy
    @MrDonalddy 3 роки тому

    the one with the wings open is the boy

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  3 роки тому

      There are four butterflies. More than one is a male.

  • @bktee8182
    @bktee8182 3 роки тому

    So crazy how nature works

  • @Stevenpa00
    @Stevenpa00 4 роки тому

    Fly fly fly

  • @maevewhitty3158
    @maevewhitty3158 2 роки тому

    We think there are 3 boy and 1 girl.

  • @dylanbatts6012
    @dylanbatts6012 4 роки тому

    the 3 are the males the ones the gril

  • @mridhulml9238
    @mridhulml9238 3 роки тому

    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
      @JeffersonLab  3 роки тому

      Other than the dissolve at the end, this is real time.

  • @DeepMandal007
    @DeepMandal007 3 роки тому

    love it

  • @fernandomedellin1120
    @fernandomedellin1120 9 років тому +1

    I think theres only one boy

    • @JeffersonLab
      @JeffersonLab  9 років тому

      Fernando Medellin Actually, there are two.