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Ranger Kids: Rainbow - Age 13

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Meet Rainbow, Zipper and Queenie's addopted son. I originally designed him as a monarch butterfly but with the wing patter I gave him I'm not so sure anymore. I'll stick with monarch for now, especially considering who his mum is.

Rainbow follows his father's example and, although he seems shy, brings bravery and scouting abillities to the younger team.

Like Bink Rainbow is 4 years older than Nate and Kimmy.

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male 1,186,738, female 1,076,496, cute 161,157, squirrel 30,643, model 3,267, monarch butterfly 11, size comparason 1, addoption 1

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Published: 13 years, 9 months ago

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CartoonConniption

13 years, 9 months ago

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Who is his mom?

Pouncer

13 years, 9 months ago

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@ CartoonConniption

Queenie the Queen Bee, although we don't know who his biological parents were. Due to his parents' responsibillities, Rainbow splits his time between the Ranger Tree and Queenie's hive.

CartoonConniption

13 years, 9 months ago

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@ Pouncer

I was stalking biologically.

So the poor guy does twice the work, eh?

Pouncer

13 years, 9 months ago

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@ CartoonConniption

Yup, he gets around when working with his team.

EmmetEarwax

12 years, 2 months ago

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Monarch butterfly ??
OK, you're talkin' to one who raised them from EGGS ! The caterpillar stage is aptly described as the "stupid" body, with black,white and yellow stripes, which change randomly in each molt.* Once the adult has emerged from the chrysalis shell, and gets bathed in sunlight, its maiden flight can be a doozy ! One flew ALL the way from the garden next to the house stoop, over the roof and roosted in a high oak tree in the back yard ! I think it moved more than it ever did in its lumpen caterpillar stage.

* The change from caterpillar to chrysalis once the caterpillar stops eating, selects a spot and makes a button of silk to cling to, is but 11 hours. The final minutes are explosive metamorphosis. False legs disappear, a spike appears at the end of the body, the skin tears and is retracted to the last pair of legs just before they vanish,the spike is forced into the silk button, and body mass shifts from the general length, into the front,shrinking the back which shortens. As the pre-chrysalis grows quiescent, the larval stripes fade into a mild grass green, with gold spots along the wing edges.

About 11 hrs before transformation into adult, the green color is replaced by black, white,red and other colors as the wing scales rapidly grow under the chrysalis shell. The entire chrysalis stage is passed without any eating, so the mass must have somewhat reduced.

The chrysalis, prior to suddenly hinging open, starts to very slowly move back & forth, as revealed by my time-lapse filming. The adult can be removed from the chrysalis as long as 12 hrs before its ready, but will not voluntarily move until an internal trigger activates. Then a programmed sequence of movements effects exit from the chrysalis. Until this trigger goes off, the premature adult will walk or wave a wing or limb only if prodded. The adult eats ageratum pollen, in contrast to the larva who eats only milkweed.

Monarchs have 4 gen. a year, but only the autumn one migrates and lives several months, I do not believe that any of the ones I raised were of that gen., but maybe their offspring were.

Take it from one who has done it -but is past that now.

Pouncer

12 years, 1 month ago

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@ EmmetEarwax

Cool.

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