All the caterpillars off our swan plants have been "disappearing" when it comes time to change into their chrysalis - we haven't found many, but over the weekend we found one on the fort, well away from the swan plants, and another one found the first (Lily's convinced a Monarch butterfly carried the caterpillar over to his friend).
All weekend we were watching the second one, waiting for it to change into a chrysalis, we watched for 2 days, then it did it when we weren't watching yesterday at teatime :(
Anyway, the first one just hatched. The kids watched it drying it's wings, then start running around and finally take off.
Lily got a bit worried during the running and jumping stage...
Now we wait for the second one (and try and track the half a dozen fat caterpillars that will be going on vacation any day!)