IT'S A GIRL!
She came out of the chrysalis in the night and I found her on the floor of the butterfly tent struggling to straighten out and dry her wings. She still seems to be having a hard time getting her wings straightened out, but appears to be getting stronger.
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So, how do I know that she is a female? She has thicker wing veins than her male counterpart, and the male has a black spot on the upper side of each lower wing, absent in the female.
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Hopefully she will manage to straighten out her wings enough to fly, but in the meantime she is safe from predators while still in the butterfly tent !
If you have not been following the story of my rescued caterpillar, you can read about it here and here.
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