Tucked under one of the clapboards on a building at work - a variegated fritillary chrysalis (Euptoieta claudia). The caterpillar fed on Passionflower (Passiflora) vines and then crawled a significant distance to this site. We saw the caterpillar soon after it had crawled up and hooked on. Two days later it had formed this rather striking chrysalis.
Now we wait.
Update: 10-1-07
Sad to report that something got to this chrysalis. No butterfly will emerge. I hope that some other critter ate it. That is somehow preferable to thinking that some person destroyed it on purpose, for no reason other than it was there.
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