I really love it when...

everything comes together just right!  On our weekly trip to the library, one of the girls picked out this book

Madeline was reading through it, showing me the pictures and giving me the highlights.  I recognized one of the pictures as something I had seen on our milkweed leaves when we were gathering them for the monarchs.  So, the girls and I went out to look.  We found several of these

which, it appears, is what is left after a ladybug emerges from its pupal state.  The girls were so excited to be able to identify these.