Butterfly Stats

When Isabel and I first started this adventure we had a feeling that most of our butterflies were females, but we had not been keeping track.  Curious about our ratio of females to males we went back and looked at our pictures to see who was in the lead and it turns out that we were right; females are more common.  We have released a total of 14 Monarchs ( 5 males and 9 females).

We currently have 8 or 9 chrysalides waiting to hatch.  This past couple of weeks we have had more butterflies than ever, must be the season.  This picture gives you a good idea of how busy we have are.  If you look carefully you can see we have butterflies, chrysalides and caterpillars in this shot.  We have to give a shout out to Daddy who bought us this new home for the caterpillars; he likes to watch them too.  Their new home keeps them all in one place and contained until they are ready for release.  Everyone likes to walk by or sit in front of it and watch the caterpillars do their thing.