Butterflies

 

The kids got a butterfly habitat for Easter.  So, we ordered our caterpillars and received them with in a week.  We watched them move around in their cup for a few days and one by one they each crawled to the top of the cup to set up to become a cocoon.  That step took about 7 days for all 5 of them to become a cocoon.  Then we transferred the cocoons into the butterfly garden and watched them wiggle away in their cocoons.  Then it took another week for them to hatch from their cocoons.  Those silly little things hatched so quick and we never got to see one come out of its cocoon.  We would leave for a while and come back and see a butterfly in the garden and they all hatched one by one.  Then, soon we had a indoor garden of 5 butterflies that loved to drink sugar water. 

We then waited for a sunny warm day and let them free in our backyard.  This was a neat project for the kids.  They want to do it again.