Each fall we look for caterpillars to take to school and have at home. It is such an amazing transformation that occurs! This year after hours and hours of searching across a few weeks span of time, we were only able to find one caterpillar. Shelly was doing an observational science project and journal for one of her classes. She let us keep the caterpillar at our house, since we only found one and we helped to take photographs daily and describe the changes for recording in her journal. It was a fun way to watch the transitions occur.
Jacob loves to hold the caterpillars and butterflies!
Hanging J stage
Next day just after it changes into it's chrysalis. It is an amazing thingI observed it go from the j to the chrysalis last year.
After 10 days it came out of the chrysalis. The first few days after it comes out of the chrysalis it is pretty docile and you can hold it without it flying away. It is pretty fun. Jacob would hold it constantly if we would let him. After taking the first picture of the butterfly I dropped my camera! I was able to fix it, but it was making some weird noises.
We released the butterfly out to the big beautiful world. I didn't get a picture because as we were trying to open our cage it took off immediately to have a new journey!
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Wow! Those are some awesome pictures! That's a fun activity to do at home with your kids!
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