Saturday, May 16, 2009

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...

1 comment:

Marshall McCAll said...

OK Becky, today is 5/27 and that is 11 or 12 days since you posted. Did you get any butterflies?