Monarch Chrysalis just before butterfly emerges

My very first sighting of a Monarch Butterfly chrysalis

Be Transformed

A Small Tortoishell butterfly undergoing natures alchemy... If you look carefully you can see the coloration of the wings beginning to show through the pupal case.

The caterpillar/butterfly strengthens its wings by beating them against the cocoon. It completes its transformation through the hardship of emerging. You can't help it through - it has to break through for itself. The struggle is the thing! Does that remind of you of anything? #thestruggleisreal #transformation #butterfly #chrysalis #recovery

A photographer reveals the astonishing ways these masters of metamorphosis can fool their predators and us.