... yesterday! We bought a butterfly kit from the library a couple weeks ago when a butterfly garden lady came to talk about what they eat and how they eat it and stuff.
BTW, that ended up being a borderline disaster for us. The room was FULL of people and we were in the middle, so my kids couldn't hear what the lady was saying, and Nathan was tired, so we ended up looking at books til it was over.
Anywho, we came home with a caterpillar, which Lydi was thrilled about and gave the name Olivia. But I was skeptical. And then it pupated, so we followed the directions and discarded the food container, which meant dumping the cocoon into the cup and I hoped we were doing it right, but I was still skeptical. I would look at the cocoon occasionally but I forgot about it for couple of days until yesterday. I just happened to stop and take a look and there it was, A BUTTERFLY! Seriously, this was so exciting to me. I really didn't expect it to work. So I ran and told Lydi she had to come see something. She didn't know what was going on. I think my excitement freaked her out, but she got excited when she saw it too. We released it quickly cause I was afraid we'd waited too long or something because it seemed lethargic and there was red stuff in the cup that looked like blood. I hope we didn't let it go too soon!
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We have done this a million times and it never stops being exciting. The first time we did it the caterpillar got away and we thought that was the end of it,but we woke one morning to a butterfly flying around the living room. It was the most exciting thing my kids had ever seen and they still talk about it. Glad it worked out for you.
Hi--that actually isn't blood but meconium. We've raised butterflies twice. It's so fun to see it emerge. I know Lydi must have been thrilled
Thanks for that insight, Tiff. I'm relieved to know that Olivia was not bleeding!
Yes Tiffany, thanks for that. I knew the blood was normal, but I had no idea why and certainly did not know what it was called. Our first caterpillar, the one we thought we lost, actually climb out of whatever it was given to us in and made it's caccoon on one of our lamps and we found that bloody stuff much later, hanging off the lamp and I screamed but my daughter told me it was normal.
I meant to comment on how surprising that must've been to see your butterfly flying around! I've never heard of them escaping like that. I can already tell that I am gonna be learning right along w/my kids as I "teach" them!
well, my daughter got that one and we knew very little about them. The woman gave it to her in a dixie cup and I thought "okay, this is a joke." The cup was picked up a million times by my son and when the catterpillar got away my daughter cried. But then it formed it's crysalis And I only know that word from my daughter)and we didn't even know until I saw it in the living room. It was the strangest thing. When we figured out that it had made it cacoon on a lamp that was really funny. I know as little about them as a one year old but Jane loves them.
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