Rayetta's Butterflies - An Empty Chrysalis

This morning. while on one my routine patrols, I noticed an especially pretty, fresh looking, black swallowtail butterfly perched on a switchgrass stem only half a foot off the ground. This is odd, I thought. This butterfly is perfectly tame. I should go get a camera and take its picture. But then I had to go break up a fight that had started in the pecan orchard. It seems the bosom companions had greased Lomo’s roof access tree. Once I had all that sorted out, I temporarily forgot about the fresh, tame butterfly.

Hours later, I rushed back to that switchgrass stem and found this, a chrysalis. That tame butterfly must have just come out of this very chrysalis only a few hours back. Remarkably, the empty chrysalis is split only through what might be termed its head and thorax region.

Ha! That spells it. The documentation cycle is complete for Papilio polyxenes at the CB. We are a source, not a sink