This is a chrysalis of an Anise Swallowtail Butterfly. On October 21, 2015, I was given this chrysalis by an employee of Armstrong Nursery after a customer pulled it off a dill plant they were purchasing. The employee glued the chrysalis onto a stick and asked me to take it home for safe keeping.

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