Friday, August 20, 2010

Amazing transformation

We have been watching the transformation of these caterpillars, first as they attached to the lid of their cup and became chrysalides...
 ...and then we watched as they emerged from their chyrsalides...
 ...as these beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies.
 It tied in nicely with one of our science lessons, and it has been really fascinating to watch the whole process!  My favorite part is watching them unfurl their proboscis and drink sugar-water from the flowers (gathered from the kids' bountiful flower-harvest in the garden) and juice from orange slices.
 We have also learned about predators!!!

4 comments:

Rachel said...

How fun!

Like Fudge said...

We've also raised butterflies, and I think that I enjoy it as much as the kids! So fun!

Delighted Hands said...

This is an amazing transformation and so glad you enjoyed the successful science experiment! Mindy is precious..........

cj and family said...

Very cool!