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| Hi all,
I had a monarch emerge this morning with a fold in its wing. The one wing is fine:
But as you can see, the other wing is folded in one part.
This is a blurry picture, but you can see the wings are also leaning to one side.
Is there anything I can do for it? I'm not sure if it will be able to fly like this, but my gut tells me no. |
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| Your butterfly doesn't look too bad, but I don't know if he can fly or not. I released 3 Monarchs so far this year that had some sort of wing malformation - one came out with crumpled wings that didn't open fully, one fell down after emerging and couldn't get up to hang, and a third emerged with 1 normal wing and 1 very small deformed wing. None of these 3 butterflies could fly normally, so I would take them out back and put them on a nectar flower in the garden and let nature take its course. Some people have kept a butterfly in a cage and will feed it with something like juice or flowers. Sort of like keeping the butterfly as a pet. I figure that there is mortality in nature, and that's the way it is. Most of these butterflies wouldn't even have a life if we didn't rear them in protected cages or indoors. |
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| I've read about people ironing monarch wings but I have not done it myself. There is a good video on monarch wing repair. If you have some spare wings, you could go this route. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Live Monarch Foundation - How to fix a broken butterfly wing
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