New Member of Our Household
We celebrated a new birth yesterday.
A couple of weeks ago, India brought home a monarch butterfly caterpillar, which she and a friend had found at school. We got to keep it because these caterpillars love milkweed, and we have a lot of that growing on our backyard fence.
We put it in India's bugcatcher, and few days afterwards, it made a chrysalis. Then, yesterday, voila! We had a brand new butterfly. It hung from the top of the bugcatcher a while and dried its wings. When it started flapping around, we released the lid and applauded when it flew away.
So if you see a monarch butterfly, it may have been ours. (They travel widely, y'know.)
A couple of weeks ago, India brought home a monarch butterfly caterpillar, which she and a friend had found at school. We got to keep it because these caterpillars love milkweed, and we have a lot of that growing on our backyard fence.
We put it in India's bugcatcher, and few days afterwards, it made a chrysalis. Then, yesterday, voila! We had a brand new butterfly. It hung from the top of the bugcatcher a while and dried its wings. When it started flapping around, we released the lid and applauded when it flew away.
So if you see a monarch butterfly, it may have been ours. (They travel widely, y'know.)
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