Serendipity.

Ser∙en∙dip∙i∙ty (ser-ĕn-dip-ĭ-tee) n. the making of pleasant discoveries by accident [and] a knack for doing so.

     From the OAD(Oxford American Dictionary) ©1979, the paperback edition that sits on my desk between a Roget’s Thesaurus and two copies of my book Confessions of a Butterfly Gardener. 

     In case you don't recognize the wings, paws and haunch pictured here, that's Muscadine - guardian grotesque of the butterfly garden and named for a wine grape that can stand Florida's summer heat.  Cats have pupated on him in the past, their empty, shredded chyrsalises a tease and a testament to what I missed.

     But no missing THIS one. Still wet from a garden watering, this jade gem sparkled in the afternoon sun - a beauty to the beast from which she hung.

Or he.

Magnifying glass in hand, I paused work on this chapter of Bfly Also and headed to the garden. Daylight Saving Time shone bright at six o'clock in the evening, and I was hopeful to find the teensy evidence of monarch male versus female located by the cremaster.

Cremaster.

/kri'mast'ә/ ▪ n. 2. Entomology. The hook-like tip of a butterfly pupa. Origin, Greek, kremastēr, from krema - 'hang'.

From the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) © 2004, eleventh edition, the hardcover that sits on my desk between  Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons and a copy of some wine guide that I've never cracked because it's on my desk and not the kitchen where it should be.
      Though the necessary spot on the chrysalis is twirled against a bump on Muscadine's sculpted wing, my guess is female.

Such a challenge to come up with a name befitting a lady bfly  pupating on a gargoyle wing. It called for something dark, something gothic. I turned to Confessions readers for help, and got...Lucretia. 

It's from a song.  

This reader dug deep into gothic music territory back to the godfathers of gothic rock, The Sisters of Mercy. They in turn dug deep into Italian Renaissance territory for the name 'Lucretia', a nod to Lucrezia Borgia, famous for her role in the power-hungry Borgias' rise to Italian power, infamous for her rumored poison ring and its role at dinner parties.

Lucretia, the gothic butterfly. Perhaps I'll serendipitously catch her emergence.

Reference for this post: Various sources concerning Lucretia/Lucrezia, including:http://www.allmusic.com/song/t1529650