On Friday we got our caterpillers!!!!! (That sounds weird, I know, but if you keep reading you'll find out!) They are in a little cup that has airholes in the lid. (Yes, they have food in the cup.) They will be in the caterpiller stage for about a week. Then they will crawl to the top of the cup and hang upside down. Then, 1 to 2 days after, they will curl up and harden into shiny chrysalids. Inside each chrysalid, the old body parts of the caterpiller will change to form the new parts that will make up the adult butterfly. The pupal stage will take a week to 10 days. When all the caterpillers have formed chrysalids, then we have to take the paper backing off and pin it in the inside of the habitat. (The habitat is a cylinder shaped thing with a cloth floor and mesh walls and roof.) Then when the butterflies hatch, they will hatch inside their habitat! So I'd say that we are going to have lots of fun with butterflies!
(Oh, and by the way, pretty soon I will blog about our Praying Mantis egg sac!)
(Oh, and by the way, pretty soon I will blog about our Praying Mantis egg sac!)
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We've done this a few times at the Nursing home I work at and it's really neat to see them hatch. You'll have fun watching them!
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