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On the morning of June 25, I found some parsley worms on my parsley plants which had gone to seed. I got the idea to put them into a large jar (under the dome) so that I could watch them change into black swallowtail butterflies. In a couple of days, three of the caterpillars had transformed into the chrysalis stage. I had hooked up a small security camera to my computer in in oder to take some time lapse movies of the parsley worms eating and moving around. Next, I got the idea to attempt to capture one of the caterpillars changing into a chrysalis, so I set everything up on my computer (shown on the video) and after several hours of video I was able to capture the change, which is amazing. I waited for several days and on the morning of July 3, I discovered two black swallowtail butterflies in the jar, and then went outside and released them. I have been videoing for two days now, trying to capture the emergence of one of the butterflies from the chrysalis, but so far nothing has happened. If I am successful, I will share that video.