Monday, October 5, 2009
Butterfly Observations
What are some observations that you are making about your caterpillars? Make sure you take pictures and write something every day.
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Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
This is what our caterpillar will look like when he hatches from his cocoon.
Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar
This caterpillar is living out on my screened-in back porch.
Butterfly Labels
Chrysalis Under Microscope
This is the chrysalis at 10x under a microscope.
Chrysalis Under Microscope
This is the chrysalis at 60x under a microscope.
Chrysalis under Microscope
This is the chrysalis at 200x under a microscope.
Matthew and Alex Release the Swallowtail
The butterfly flew up into a tree and the boys tried to chase it.
Matthew and Alex Release the Swallowtail
Matthew and Alex Release the Swallowtail
Matthew and Alex Release the Swallowtail
Alex and Matthew work together to release the enormous butterfly!
Matthew's Butterfly Hatches
Matthew swallowtail butterfly hatched on Sunday, October 25.
Florida Viceroy Butterfly
This is what Alex's butterfly looked like when we released him into the butterfly garden.
Florida Viceroy Pupa
This is what the pupa stage looks like for a Florida Viceroy.
Florida Viceroy Caterpillar
This is what Alex's caterpillar REALLY was - a Florida Viceroy!
Broken Cocoon
This is a close up of the Florida Viceroy cocoon.
Matthew and Alex Release Alex's Butterfly
Alex and Matthew release Alex's butterfly into the Heathrow Elementary butterfly garden.
Alex's Butterfly Hatches!
Alex's butterfly hatched while we were at school on October 12.
Alex's Butterfly Hatches!
Alex's butterfly hatched while we were at school on October 12.
Matthew's Butterfly Begins to Change
It was green this morning...yellow this afternoon!
Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly
This is what we predict Matthew's butterfly will look like.
Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar
This is the caterpillar that Matthew has.
White Admiral Butterfly
This is what we predict that Alex's butterfly could look like.
White Admiral Caterpillar
This is the caterpillar that we think Alex's has.
Alex's Caterpillar
October 4, 2009
Both caterpillars were purchased on Saturday, October 2, 2009.
ReplyDeleteMy caterpillar is makn a cocoon. I know this because he is up side doen and he is still.
ReplyDeleteHe has white stuff on his tail.
ReplyDeleteMy caterpillar was amazing last night. It was changing. It was half caterpillar. It was changing in to a cocoon. I was in bed when my caterpillar was changing! He was wiggling around and his tail was going side to side and up and down. He looked like he was going in circles. He was going crazy!
ReplyDeleteMy caterpillar is sticking to the glass and is going up and down. He is still yellow.
ReplyDeleteWe thought by the look of our caterpillar and the cocoon that formed later that Alex's butterfly would look much different than it did. Look at our prediction of what the butterfly would look like and our actual photograph of the butterfly. Why do they look so different? Do you have a new idea about what the butterfly may be?
ReplyDeleteAlex and I did some research in a Florida Butterflies book. We did not have a lot of luck using the Internet to research. However, in the book, we found the Florida Viceroy Butterfly. It looked very similar to a monarch butterfly (which is what Alex thought he had hatched after we saw that it wasn't a White Admiral). I think we predicted incorrectly because the White Admiral pupa and the Florida Viceroy pupa look very similar. We knew that Alex's butterfly could not have been a monarch butterfly because the pupa looked nothing like the monarch pupa.
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