Young country diary: Helping a butterfly into its new phase of life | Ottoline

Cambridgeshire: It was nearly ready to fly but it was partly out of its chrysalis and partly still in it On Sunday morning, I was pottering in the garden wondering what to do. I saw a flapping coming from my wildflower patch, so I went to my clump of clover. I pushed it away, only to reveal a large white butterfly fresh out of its chrysalis. It had been drying its damp wings in the sun. Then I realised that part of the butterfly’s chrysalis was still on its wing, and the other wing was already d