Claire got a butterfly garden for Christmas and it has finally been warm enough to order our caterpillars. We got two containers of them and this is the size they were when they arrived.
Within a matter of only 3 days, they grew to be over double their size!
And another two days later, this is how large they became!
Shortly after eating a ton of the food provided in the container, they were ready to make their chrysalis. They made their way to the top of the container and formed the letter J.
When we woke the next morning, they had made their chrysalis!
After leaving them undisturbed for two days, we then had to transfer them into the butterfly garden. Before placing them inside, we had to remove all of the webbing around each chrysalis.
And a few days later, we got our very first butterfly!
With their wings open, they had a beautiful orange color. They are called painted lady butterflies.
Every day we had to give them sugar water. Claire loved this job and had a fun time placing fresh flowers with sugar water on the bottom of the garden. They also like orange slices so we gave them some oranges every day too. We were lucky that all 10 butterflies made it.
After watching them and caring for them for 8 days, we decided tonight was the night to let them free. Claire had so much fun letting them sit on her hand and walk up her arm!
Then she got to hold out her hands and watch them fly away!
These two didn't seem to want to fly away just yet so we gave them a flower with sugar water on to hang out on until they are ready. What a awesome process to observe! God sure does some amazing things!
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