Our Journal, Catterpillars to Chrysalides

This is the first part of our Caterpillars to Butterfly Journal - Take two
Again me and the girls sat down at the table and discussed what was going on in the cup and any changes they saw.

Day One- 04-05-10 (first picture taken)
Our new caterpillars arrived today, they are very tiny. Their food has no holes yet or doesn't have poo on in it yet. 3 are moving and the other two are still. We are going to try and not kill them this time! Their names are:

1. Strawberry
2. Mango
3. Apple
4. Orange
5. Peach

Day Two- They grew a lot, two are playing tag at the top of the cup. They have a lot of hair on them. They spun a bunch of silk last night.

Day Three- (Second picture) One is upside down in the silk. The 'spider' web grew last night. Hailey- "Oh No, its broken" "Are you OK baby?" "Eat up your food" Me- "What else do you see Hailey?" "POOP" Taylor- "Mango is in the food".

Day Four- (Third picture) Three of them were in shapes this morning s, n & r. They are 10 times bigger than day one.
Hailey- "Yucky poo Mummy" "Yucky orange poo Mummy" "Poo" **Eating Motion** "I eat Caterpillars".
(Don't ask about the Pumpkin hat) Day Five- One of them has started its big change. Its hanging upside down and looks like a candy cane. They are big and fat now and pulling down the silk as they walk on it. There is poo piled high around the sides.

Day Six- (Forth Picture) Two are now Chrysalides, one of the other ones was climbing on one of them making the Chrysalide shake and spin to scare him away. They are so big now and running out of space. A few hours later 2 more caterpillars were hanging in place and the last one looks like it was getting ready.

Day Seven- (Last two pictures)
All the caterpillars are now Chrysalides, all their heads fell off, I'm sure this is normal as all five of them did the same thing. They sure did make a mess in their cup though (I took a picture for your viewing pleasure)
So it was time to move them from the cup to the Butterfly Habitat. They were getting scared and started shaking and spinning, we quickly did what we needed to do and left them alone to do their fascinating change.

We really hope this works!!! Hopefully you will see pictures of our beautiful Butterfly's in a week or two.