This might be one of the most beautiful Monarch butterflies I have seen, but I am also kind of biased. This is the first offspring from none other than Timothia! You can tell by the two black spots on the lower part of his wings that he is a male. He hatched some time today and I didn’t even notice him fluttering around the Butterfly enclosure until later this afternoon. The first thing I did once I noticed this guy had hatched was to bring him inside to do some testing on him for the dreaded OE parasite.
Guess what?!! As best I can tell, he doesn’t appear infected. I’ll provide the details on how I did the testing on the next post.
So, without further delay, I’d like to introduce Alvin (since he was the first Monarch born from Timothia, and a male, and the first letter of the alphabet is A..well you get the idea)
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It's Alive, It's Alive!
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