I recently saw this butterfly growing kit by InsectLore on Amazon.com and decided that I must buy it for Abigail's birthday!
Butterfly Garden LIVE
Abigail was so excited to receive this gift and I too was very excited about getting started.
It comes with a voucher. You enter this voucher online and choose the delivery date for you caterpillars.
The Caterpillars are delivered in a little plastic pot. This is where they stay until they form their chrysalis. They are tiny little caterpillars.
Watching the caterpillars grow was great and they practically doubled in size each day! They really were Very Hungry Caterpillars! :) After a week they were all happily snug in their cocoons.
Seeing them turn to Chrysalis's was a great experience too. I watched one closely and he seemed to literally push his way out of his caterpillar skin!
After about a week in their cocoons they started to hatch out and stretch their butterfly wings. This was the girls favourite bit.
After a few days of studying them we let them free into the garden. The Butterflies were friendly and happily sat on our hands before flying off.
Ive put together a little slideshow of the caterpillars journey to becoming beauty butterflies!
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