So my Mum ordered some monarch butterfly chrysalises for us as a surprise, and they were meant to come Unhatched so we could keep them and hatch them ourselves, but stupid corona kept them in a Melbourne post office for a g e s and they hatched while still in their tubes. By the time they got to us, they were hatched and shrivelled up in their tubes and we were about to put them In the bin when I was like “wAIt that one is moving” so I managed to get a skewer and pull it out, my parents were like “it’s cruel to keep it alive, let’s put it in the freezer” and I was like “nO” so I made it some sugar water and it was like, really thirsty so it sat on my hand for ages and drank it. I made a box for it and put the other chrysalis in there, since it’s really unbalanced and cant grip onto anything other than my hand and paper towel lol. It’s wings are a hot mess since it was living inside that tiny tube, so I’m going to see if it gets any better over the next day or so and if not I might splint it? We’ll see. UPDATE: His wings were getting worse by the day, by the time I finally decided to do surgery they were too damaged to splint, so I ended up just trimming them off since his feet kept on getting stuck in them and they were throwing him off balance. He is happily sipping on sugar water now and his balance is a thousand times better :D ALSO we got two new unhatched chrysalises and I’m hoping one of them is a girl so he can have a fulfilled life and make some babies UwU
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