Oh, happy day!
The Monarch I raised from the caterpillar stage has emerged from its chrysalis yesterday morning October 4, 2017!
Nine days ago it had transformed into a chrysalis. It's a female!
Here is my post from a few days ago about the caterpillar stage and the milkweed it was raised on.
The male Monarch Butterfly may be easily identified by noting the two highly visable black spots on the insect's hind wings and the thinner black webbing within the wings.
The female's webbing is thicker and she has no identifying wing spot
as the male does.
The photos speak for themselves about how amazing this process has been!
Note how the chrysalis has changed from the beautiful green with gold accents to a clear hard case and you can see the Monarch's wings with its beautiful black and orange colors!
The butterfly emerges! I didn't see the exact moment it happened, but this is probably 15-20 minutes after emerging because its wings aren't wrinkled anymore.
This last photo is probably one of my favorite photos since I got a great macro shot of it and also you can still see the empty chrysalis below it on the stick.
We opened the butterfly tent after a couple of hours when it seemed ready to fly off into the world.
She flew up into our pecan tree and rested there some more.
I'm hoping to see it flying around my yard, but no guarantees!
She will be searching out flowers to nectar on, which I have, and then when a nice north wind blows it will start gliding and head south to Mexico for the Monarchs Wintering Grounds.
There is a lot more detailed information on the Internet about all the stages of the monarch and its migration.
Here is my post from a few days ago about the caterpillar stage and the milkweed it was raised on.
All photos by me 
Have a wonderful day!