Well congrats...The darkening from Jade Green to a blackish is the crysalid becoming thinner. You will start to see the orange and black thru the crysalid so you could actually see its wings. The bump? who knows. It may be trying to open. No picture makes it hard to know but I am sure since they are a week old, they will be getting ready to emerge soon.

flutter

Thank you for your response, flutter!!!

I did know that the chrysalis would turn blackish as the chrysalid became thinner, but interesting enough, I never saw orange or white in there, so I started to worry if I was raising a wasp, instead!

Well, it all happened very quickly, this morning before I left for work I only saw 2 orange dots, otherwise just black. 3 hours later my boyfriend called to tell me that he could see the black, orange stripes and the white dots.
An hour after that the butterfly had already emerged!

However, there were difficulties. It had fallen right down to the bottom of the castle. Fortunately I have a nice soft terry washcloth covering the base. It flailed around a bit. My boyfriend put down one of the bamboo sticks we had standing along the inside of the castle, to act as a ramp for it to climb on then up the sides of the mesh.
But the butterfly kept slipping off, back onto the washcloth.

So my boyfriend went outside and picked one of our big zinnia flowers, stalk, leaves and all. The butterfly did climb on that, better traction I guess, and is hanging close to the end. My boyfriend clamped the stalk to the mesh to keep it in place. The butterfly is still hanging there, though it did fall once again, but climbed back on. the proboscis is now fused into one from two, and is quite still. The wings look fully formed.

But one wing is a little bent, about 30 degree angle, outward.

I sure hope it will be okay!

I'll keep you posted, with some photos next time!

Again, thank you for the prompt response!

flowergirl