Experiment Part II

So as of today 5/27, more cocoons but no butterflies yet. We continue to wait...

Experiment

There seem to be tons of caterpillars in our area right now. The kids have been watching caterpillars transform to butterflies in their preschool classes so I thought why not try our own little experiment at home. I let the kids collect a few caterpillars at the park and used our dollar store bug catchers to create a caterpillar habitat. A few didn't make it but after 3 days one had formed a chrysalis. and 2 days later, look what we have!:

According to what I found on the internet, in about 9 days, we should have a few of these:

to be continued...