Birth of a Butterfly
Jan 6, 2012 03:53:17 #
We watch our granddaughters in the summer while the parents are at work. Last summer we found a beautiful caterpillar in the garden. We brought it in and placed it in a plastic container where it transformed itself into a butterfly. It was fun watching it daily. I put four pictures into a collage showing the different stages we saw from caterpillar to release. Exciting project to do with the kids.
Jan 6, 2012 06:57:28 #
Grannysweet wrote:
We watch our granddaughters in the summer while the parents are at work. Last summer we found a beautiful caterpillar in the garden. We brought it in and placed it in a plastic container where it transformed itself into a butterfly. It was fun watching it daily. I put four pictures into a collage showing the different stages we saw from caterpillar to release. Exciting project to do with the kids.
Nice collage showing your black swallowtail.
Jan 6, 2012 07:03:42 #
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Jan 7, 2012 09:49:23 #
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Jan 7, 2012 17:23:18 #
The butterfly hung around for a while after being released. We knew him from the others because he seemed unusually friendly and wasn't afraid of us like the other butterflies.
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Jan 7, 2012 17:31:52 #
What did you feed the caterpillar while he was in captivity? Did it show preferences for particular food?
Jan 7, 2012 23:08:21 #
We put some carrot tops, some drops of water and also, by my granddaughter's teacher's advice, we put some drops of nectar like the hummingbirds drink. We didn't have to feed him long though. When we found him, he was eating like crazy on the carrot plants. We put him in the big plastic jar and by the next day he was hanging upside down from the sticks we put in the jar, making the crystalis. He was ready for the change. I thought he had died but after about two weeks one morning my husband woke me up to show me the huge butterfly that had emerged.
Jan 8, 2012 11:08:53 #
Singing Swan wrote:
What did you feed the caterpillar while he was in captivity? Did it show preferences for particular food?
Gulf frittillaries' caterpillars eat passion vine. There is a beautiful swallowtail that eats parsley or dill. Monarchs love Mexican Butterfly Bush... check out gardening for butterfly larvae. I keep several types of plants in my garden for them.. And I keep lots of a plant I call purple fuzzy stuff (ageratum) A lot of butterflies love it for nectar. It's easy to grow from seed and reseeds itself. I haven't had to replant or sow seeds in over 8 years.
Jan 8, 2012 23:55:42 #
My husband has a flower garden next to our yard swing and we plant all kinds of different flowers so there are some blooming all summer long. The butterflies are plentiful, as well as bees and hummingbirds. We also have bird feeders which provide us with summertime photo ops. We enjoy the migrating birds that come thru our yard each year. There is one particular bird, a red breasted grosbeak that appears within the same two day period each year and hangs around about 2 or 3 weeks.
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