Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Hungry Little Caterpillar...

My fabulous coworker Briana bought a present for Jaelynn and it arrived yesterday.  Can anyone guess what it is?
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Nope, not a book.  A butterfly farm!  
In the package is a little container with 5 caterpillars underneath a bunch of silk, and a "cage" to put them into once they are ready to turn into butterflies.  So..to start our adventure, I thought I'd post pictures of their progress!
Here are the caterpillars as they arrived.  A few of them have crawled around a bit, but for the most part they're staying underneath the silk.



It takes 7-10 days for them to enter their next stage, so hopefully soon I'll have new pics to post of them in their next stage!

2 comments:

  1. The fun has just begun!! The "food" looks gross in the end. But it is so neat to watch the emerge!

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  2. I know! I've caught myself checking on them like every couple hours!

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