Our Amazing Painted Artwork by God
Spreading her wings. August 17, 2006.
Hi! This is guest blogger Aelsa again!
Last year at our family Christmas gathering, my brothers and I received a kit for raising butterflies as a gift. Earlier this month, we received our larvae in the mail. Last week they were chrysalids, hard and upside-down in our cups. We took them out and pinned them to the netting on the side of our "Butterfly Pavilion". Today we have 2 butterflies and more on the way!
The scientific name is Vannessa Cardui L. and the common name is The Painted Lady Butterfly (the given names are; Monica, Mark, and the others I don't know yet). When they emerge, red liquid drips like blood from them and their chrysalid. But it's not blood. It's meconium, leftover dye and tissue from the butterfly's formation!
This type of butterfly has 10,000 eyes! God's creation is wonderful! He is giving me and my brothers an up-front perspective of his glory. I think I'll like looking at one of his wonderful, colorful, flying creatures; the butterfly.
from Genisis 1:
24 Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
posted on Thursday, August 17
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Thursday, August 17
Gods Glory
Posted by ScottCosta
What a wonderful job you and your brother did rearing the butterflies. When I taught a college class and used the same species for a project only 20% of the larvae survived. Insects have so many interesting and beautiful characteristics. A very interesting story I found recently is that there are ants in the tops of trees in tropical rain forests. When these ants fall off the trees they are able to glide and land back on the tree trunk. They scientist took videos of their gliding. I am thinking that a minute insect I work with may glide too. Please tell your Mom for me that if nothing was left after the molt, i.e., a slightly larger caterpillar, then it was the virus, which affects only insects and mostly larave. Your adults are safe.
