A Baby Girl Butterfly!

This is what our chrysalis looked like during open house! We were so hoping it would come out then but it must have been a little shy so......

..... it decided to come out during the night!

We were so exited when we came in the next morning to discover it was a girl too! We can tell it is a girl because she doesn't have spots on her wings. She drank some apple cider from my finger and we all enjoyed watching her getting stronger throughout the day. It was a lovely afternoon so we decided to let her go so she could start her long journey to Mexico. Hopefully she'll make it! We still have 7 more chrysalises to go so maybe we will get to see one of them!