Mar. 25, 2009
God's Amazing Creatures!
Today we got to see the AMAZING transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly completed.
A few weeks ago, we found four fat caterpillars on our caterpillar plants.
We knew they would soon make cocoons because we had seen the cocoons before. Sure enough three of them made cocoons where we could see them. We actually got to see one of the caterpillars still working on its cocoon.
The finished cocoons look beautiful. They are a bright green with beautiful gold "thread" on them.
We have been watching them for over two weeks now, waiting for the butterflies to emerge. We have never gotten to see the butterfly actually come out of the cocoon. This morning we checked the cocoons and to our surprise one had turned black and you could see the butterfly inside.
That in itself was amazing to see! We knew it wouldn't be too long before the butterfly emerged. And sure enough, not even two hours later my dd came running to tell me it had come out. I couldn't believe it.
But there is was, so big and brand new. Drying it's wings before it flew off into the new world.
I was so disappointed that we didn't get to see it emerge from the cocoon, but it was marvelous to see the cycle from beginning to end.
We still have one cocoon left to "hatch", so hopefully we will be fortunate enough to see that one emerge.