butterfly experiment = success!
so my mom got Germaine a butterfly house for her birthday.
it came with a card for some mail-order caterpillars.
they came in a little plastic jar full of food.
which we were to leave them in until they formed crysalids on the underside of the lid.
which was lined with paper. we then had to carefully open the jar. peel out the paper, and pin it to the inside of the butterfly house.
we started with 5 caterpillars, but one died in the process of forming his cocoon. the other 4 hatched in a few days!
see the orange? that's what they ate! also a mixture of sugar and water that we placed drops of onto the petals of a flower. we actually got to watch them eat, but don't have any good pictures of...
then a few days later, we released them, which photos are in a separate locked post, since they contain images of my children.
and now all we have is this:
it came with a card for some mail-order caterpillars.
they came in a little plastic jar full of food.
which we were to leave them in until they formed crysalids on the underside of the lid.
which was lined with paper. we then had to carefully open the jar. peel out the paper, and pin it to the inside of the butterfly house.
we started with 5 caterpillars, but one died in the process of forming his cocoon. the other 4 hatched in a few days!
see the orange? that's what they ate! also a mixture of sugar and water that we placed drops of onto the petals of a flower. we actually got to watch them eat, but don't have any good pictures of...
then a few days later, we released them, which photos are in a separate locked post, since they contain images of my children.
and now all we have is this: