I told you we’ve got multiple monarch chrysalides decorating our house right now.
They pig out on milkweed, and then they start wandering, and once they find a vertical wall they climb and climb until they find a nice overhang. And then they pupate.
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They open up, and Stephen Miller crawls out.
Reginald Selkirk@1 You beat me to it, but I was going to comment on the creepiness. To do it as horror, it would have to be something that obviously wasn’t a monarch chrysalis but was identified as one repeatedly. You’re visiting a remote mansion where you watch growing and pulsating as your host talks enthusiastically about their appetite for “milkweed”. You could definitely spin that into a Lovecraftian story. Maybe in a few days, the hanging cocoons begin to hum. “The children of the milkweed, what music they make.”
birgerjohansson@2 I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of digger wasps, or maybe better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_sinensis Miller is no monarch (though he may be a monarchist ba-dum).
@2 Common man, they’re insects not evil.
I’ve seen worse.
Now that I come to think of it, every thing I’ve seen worse was on this blog. 8-O
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/07/71348/
They’re going to turn into pretty butterflies right?
I’ve sort of been trained by this blog to expect sone horrific eight tentacled mass to burst forth and consume all in sight (or inject venom and mummify it alive in webbing for extra horror).
But they’re gonna be pretty butterflies right? 🦋