We have 40 butterflies. We started with 26 this morning and by the end of the morning class we had 40. This has been an exciting journey to watch with the students. I hope the students have enjoyed it. Below are some pictures taken of a butterfly after it emerged from its’ chrysalis.
We will release some butterflies after each program on Monday and Tuesday.
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We started the day with ten butterflies and we are now counting 23. I am sure there will be more tomorrow morning. The students were able to come into my office today to see the butterflies.
The question I get asked a lot is about the red spots that you can see in the pictures. That is extra pigment from the butterfly’s wings.
We finally have some butterflies. The first one emerged late yesterday afternoon and we are now up to seven.
check out the proboscis
open wings
I moved the chrysalises to the butterfly house today. We have two butterfly houses and each house has 20 chrysalises. The waiting begins again. We should start seeing butterflies next week.
A view of the side
A view from the top
Today we had 39 chrysalises and one caterpillar hanging in it’s “J” shape. All of the students in the Tuesday/Thursday classes were able to come into my office to see the chrysalises. Tomorrow I start moving the chrysalises into the butterfly houses.
Caterpillar Day 14
Today when I came to school, there were 17 chrysalises, 22 caterpillars hanging in the “J” shape and one caterpillar crawling around. That one caterpillar is still crawling around. But, I got to see one caterpillar starting to form it’s chrysalis. Check out the link below for a one minute video of the happenings.
What a surprise I had when I stopped by school today to check on the caterpillars. We now have one chrysalis and 16 caterpillars hanging in their “J” shapes. What will I see tomorrow when we get to school?
I hope all of the moms had a wonderful Mother’s Day!!
Hanging in the “J” shape.
Our first chrysalis
A close up of the caterpillars in one of the large containers. No caterpillars are hanging in the “J shape” yet. They need to do that before we see chrysalises.
Caterpillar Day 11
We are waiting for the caterpillars to make their chrysalises. I think by Monday we will have some chrysalises to share with the students.
Caterpillar Day 10