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.