Friday, May 25, 2012

Butterflies

Last year for Mandy’s birthday, she got a butterfly kit.  To be honest we had kind of forgotten about it, but then a few weeks ago, she pulled it out and wanted to try hatching a butterfly.  So we ordered the caterpillars and got it all started!

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After about a week of growing the caterpillars started building their chrysalis.

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We moved them to the butterfly habitat to hatch.

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About a week or so later, they did!  It was so fun and exciting to see them!

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After a few days of watching them, we decided to release them.  We tried doing it out by our flower bed in hopes that they would stick around.

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But nope!  Those things flew out of there faster than I could take a picture of them!  Seriously, they were obviously very excited to be free!

2 comments:

  1. That's so cool!
    But sorry they didn't stick around.

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  2. Wow, that is really amazing! Where did you get that kit? I'd love to do that with the girls someday!

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