We are in a caterpillar and butterfly craze currently... so I've decided to ride on this "wave" to teach the kids more about the process of Metamorphosis...
Read the books "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and the Backyard Series - "Are You A Butterfly"...
While the kids have the first hand experience watching how the caterpillars transformed from wriggly worms into a chrysalis... we were quite thrilled that one of the Leopard Lacewing caterpillars we brought home on the first day, had turn into a chrysalis. Now we are crossing our fingers that it'd transform into a butterfly...and not die on us half way through the process...
We saw the shell of the caterpillar's head at the bottom of the box after it's pupatate.
The Tawny Costers we've brought home didn't make it into chrysalis... they went on a "hunger strike" from the second day onwards...and died on the 4th day that we brought them home... sigh...
Read the books "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and the Backyard Series - "Are You A Butterfly"...
While the kids have the first hand experience watching how the caterpillars transformed from wriggly worms into a chrysalis... we were quite thrilled that one of the Leopard Lacewing caterpillars we brought home on the first day, had turn into a chrysalis. Now we are crossing our fingers that it'd transform into a butterfly...and not die on us half way through the process...
We saw the shell of the caterpillar's head at the bottom of the box after it's pupatate.
The Tawny Costers we've brought home didn't make it into chrysalis... they went on a "hunger strike" from the second day onwards...and died on the 4th day that we brought them home... sigh...
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