Live Butterfly Garden - Part 1

My sister bought Alyssa a Live Butterfly Garden. The kit comes with a Net Cage and a mail order card. You place your order on the card, send the company $6 and they send you a small cup with caterpillars in it. Our cup came with 5 small caterpillars. At the bottom of each cup is some brown goop. Almost like peanut butter. This is what the caterpillars eat. Under the lid of the cup is a layer of material for the caterpillars to cling to when they are ready to make their cocoon. You can also notice the silk they spin in the jar. It almost looks like spider webs. They use the silk to move around in the jar.
Day One – Thursday, October 9th - Caterpillars come in a safe box

I put a penny in front of them so you can get an idea of how small they are. You can also see the little guy in the middle who stood up to pose just in time for the picture.

Day Two – Friday, October 10th – They seem to have grown already!!

Day Six – Tuesday, October 14th – They continue to grow really fast, we can tell that they’re getting close to cocoon stage. They have almost tripled in size.

Day Seven – Wednesday, October 15th – We are curious to see how these big guys are all going to fit at the top of the container when they build their cocoons. It’s unbelievable how fast they grow.

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