By Courtney and Trey Merrill
Before school started, we got some caterpillars. It took 15 days for them to turn into butterflies. Trey guessed that it took 15 days and he got it exactly right! Butterflies start out as eggs, and then they hatch and enter the larva stage. Then they eat constantly until they get so big that they are ready to make their chrysalids. They make their chrysalids and enter the pupa stage. Then they come out and they are butterflies.
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| We finally have our caterpillars! |
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| The caterpillars are coming up! |
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| They're making their chrysalids! |
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| They're starting to hang in their chrysalids, which are made out of a hard protein shell. |
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| The chrysalids look poky! One caterpillar died on the way here so we only have 4. |
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| We took the lid off and put it in the habitat. We put the butterflies in their new home for today. |
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| They finally came out! They came out during the nighttime. We finally have seen the butterflies out of their chrysalids. |
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| We made a pretty food platter for the butterflies. It was bananas and flowers with sugar water on them. They stayed inside for three days. |
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| Ready to take the butterflies out! |
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| Come on out, butterflies! |
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| A picture of one opening its wings. |
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| Trying to get it to land on me! |
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| This was fun!- kind of. It wouldn't come off me and I got scared that it would crawl on my face. But we got it off! |
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| Fun with the Butterfllies! |
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| We decided to add this picture because it was super silly! |
The End!
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