Monarch Butterflies

Yesterday Miss B put the swan plant outside in the sunshine, the butterflies stayed out there all day drying their wings. In the afternoon she noticed they had suddenly vanished, so she went looking around the garden for them and found them feasting on sunflowers!

Monarch Butterfly Video

Butterflies

Yay, we finally have monarch butterflies! Miss B took the swan plant home for the holidays to keep an eye on it and kept it in her spare room where it is nice and warm. Today she set up the camera and computer to record them, just in case they changed, and went out. When she got home she couldn't believe her eyes, two beautiful new monarch butterflies were hanging from the swan plant! They are now just hanging on the plant letting their wings dry out. Just as well she didn't forget to record it. Hopefully the pictures look great and she will use them to make a movie to show the children what happened.

Caterpillars

Well ten days ago our caterpillars made their cocoons. We read a book about monarch butterflies that says it takes about ten days for them to change into butterflies. I wonder if we will find a surprise when we get back to school after the long weekend?