Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Butterflies
Oh My!

One of the gifts Paytyn got for her birthday was a butterfly house. About a month ago we sent away for the butterflies. Here is the story of her Painted Lady butterflies.


This is the butterfly house.


These are the five tiny caterpillars. They came in this plastic cup. You leave them in the plastic cup until they have all formed chrysalis. The cup has air holes and all that tan stuff in the bottom of the cup is their food.

They got bigger very fast!


This stage only took about a week. We all were very surprised about how big our caterpillars had become.


Soon the caterpillars climbed to the top of the cup and started forming their new homes. It only took them ONE day to form a chrysalis.


Once all the caterpillars have turned into chrysalis you remove the paper disk from the top of the cup and safety pin it to the inside of the butterfly house.

About a week later the butterflies start emerging from the chrysalis.

Soon they all had hatched.



Kaylynn was worried because they weren't flying out of their house so she decided to help them out.



Before they flew out of our yard some of them stopped to help pollinate. THANKS BUTTERFLIES!! and the Rachfords for such a cool present.

4 comments:

  1. That is a cool gift! Looks like a lot of fun!

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  2. They are so pretty - I'm excited for ours to come! Hopefully they will survive living in the same house as Sam!

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  3. Where is this kit from?? I have GOT to get one for my preschool!!

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