Two years ago, Grammy gave us a Butterfly Garden as a gift and we all LOVED watching the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly... such an amazing process! So this spring, I decided to order more caterpillars. At this point, the caterpillars have formed into chrysalides and we hope to see at least one of the five emerge from their cocoon as a beautiful painted lady butterfly!
The girls were so excited when we got our caterpillars in the mail! They come in this self contained jar with food on the bottom. We watched them almost quadruple in size over about a 7-10 day period!
A photo of the chrysalides hanging from the top of the jar! Amazing!
The caterpillar attaches himself to a paper disc when it's ready to form a cocoon. Once all five caterpillars formed their cocoon to become a chrysalis, we removed the paper disc and pinned it to the butterfly net.
And there they are! Now we wait another week or so until they emerge as butterflies! This miraculous process has brought hours & hours of fascination and learning to our whole family!
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