Quote Originally Posted by Frog
Probably no way to know when its going to start either and I don't blame you not wanting to run your slr all day.
I hope you can catch them.
You're probably too honest to take a sick day.
The chrysalis will start to change color when they are about to emerge. They get darker and eventually turn black. From what I observed with the two that emerged last week was that the timing was very different. One was green when I went to bed at 10:00, and had emerged by the time I checked it the next morning at 6:00. The other one seemed like it took a much longer. I noticed it getting darker around mid day on a Sunday. I was able to keep an eye on it for several hours but eventually had to leave and didn't get home till after dark. It had still not emerged the following morning. I set up the time laps around 6:00 the next morning and went to work. By the time the camera stopped filming around 8:00 it had still not emerged.

So it seemed like one was able to complete it's change within about 8 hours, the other within about 24... I wonder if the temperature/weather conditions play a part in that. The one that went really fast was inside, in a controlled environment, the other was outside. With 5 chrysalis's to watch, I'm hoping I get to see at least 1 emerge!

As far as skipping work, I'm not against that, especially now that my company changed their vacation payout policy.