My good friend gave us two Monarch Butterfly catapillars a couple of weeks ago. Kenzie was so excited about this. She's been wanting to do this forever! So we put them in Kenzie's bug hotel she got from Santa last year and fed them milk weed. We watched them get fatter then only about a week later we saw them hanging upside down in a J form. We watched one of them wriggle itself into its chrysalis or cocoon.
About 10 days later the chrysalis turned really black instead of it's brilliant green color and the next morning out came a beautiful butterfly.
It hung upside down for a long time while its wings got bigger and its body got smaller. I wasn't sure when it would finally want to get out and fly so we took it outside and apparently it wasn't ready to fly yet. It hung on to our fingers upside down for a long time. It's legs were sticky and tickly.
We finally got tired of holding it so I put it on our Clematis and let it sit there for a while until it finally flew a way.
Our 2nd Butterfly emerged that night. So when we woke up in the morning he was ready to fly away. We opened the lid and off he flew...
(Thanks Amy! That was a lot of fun!)
14 years ago
3 comments:
This sounds like such a fun thing for the kids to watch. The caterpillars were beautiful! I've never seen caterpillars like that.
My kids would love that! Where did your friend get them? And where did Santa get the bug house?
Amy Steeves and JC Penney on line. In that order.
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