A Monarch caterpillar I observed yesterday took this morning to convert to a chrysalis, a fast track to becoming a butterfly. Armed with a newly acquired extension tube and an interest in time lapse photography (sans the timer), I set up shop. I set my iPhone alarm to go off every five minutes, and I patiently recorded frame after frame. I began to notice some changes after about three hours. The caterpillar looked liked he was struggling. Dark colored "antennae" were now withered and I thought would drop off. It seemed almost instantly in one five-minute span, the conversion had happened. In another two hours, the chrysalis had smoothed, hardened, and gained distinctive glistening gold dots. Come back in a few days, and I'll have an image of what emerges.