For the second year now, we have ordered caterpillars from the website Insectlore and watched them turn into butterflies. It really is a fascinating process and happens very quickly - so it's good for kids who want it to happen now. When they arrive at your house, they are tiny. You can literally watch them significantly grow each and every day before they make their cocoon. After that, it's only about a week before you have butterflies.
We usually keep the butterflies for a day or two and then let them go. The kids just love it. If anyone is interested, let me know and you can borrow our Butterfly Garden and then you would only have to pay for the bugs themselves!
3 comments:
That's so fun! We had this happen with a caterpillar, but it was 6 months later that we saw the result! I love that the kids get to experience that!!!
JB
We are interested! How cool is that. Our kids are facinated with bugs and things that fly!
Rielyn and Ashlyn would love that! In fact there is a commercial that comes on all the time for a butterfly garden and Rielyn always yells "I want that!" everytime!
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