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Painted Lady Butterfly Garden

11:37 AM, Oct. 12, 2008 .. 0 comments .. Link

Our oldest received a Butterfly Garden Kit from his godmother for his birthday, and we sent away for the larva right away. We didn't get to watch the larvae double and triple in size because they were already full size when they arrived. Within a few days, just two i thin, they began creating cocoons and becoming chrysalides.

This was such an interesting process to watch - probably more for me than for them even! lol We had to wait for all five caterpillars to morph into chrysalides in their cup, before we could transfer them to the "Garden" mesh container. Unfortunately, I managed to kill on trying to detach it from the 'silk thread' spun to keep the chrysalide hanging in place. Not all the chryslaides were suspended, but they still 'hatched' either way, except the one I inadvertently killed. I was quite upset! The directions sounded like it would be so easy to remove the chrysalides and it wasn't! Aahh - I need to let it go...

Noah noticed the first butterfly to emerge. We kept the Garden on our table, which is also where we do our lessons. He saw movement out of the corner of his eye and looked over to see the butterfly shedding it's cocoon. He got all excited and called us over to witness it too. I got to see another one emerging the next day while I was eating lunch. It was so interesting and cool!

Noah kept notes each day in his Science Journal - you can see it "under" the butterfly in the above picture. This was our first butterfly to emerge. The little corner of a paper plate you see in the picture had a crumpled piece of tissue soaked with sugar water on it. We all enjoyed watching the butterflies drinking with their probiscus - which is like a really long, thin, red tongue that unrolls for use then rolls back up. We let all four butterflies go on a warm September day, wishing them well and hoping to see them again. And since we had these Painted Lady Butterflies, which none of us had noticed in our environment before, we began seeing them eveyrwhere we went! We hope you enjoyed our little butterfly pictorial/science lesson. THANKS Godmom Jamie for a fun extra to our curriculum this year! ENJOY!
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