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Monarch Butterfly Emerging from a Chrysalis

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Photo: © Debbie Hadley, WILD Jersey
The wing tips are the last to fill with fluid. Though not pictured here, the butterfly will also release orange fluids that are waste products from the process of metamorphosis.
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