Louisa Keenan and the case of the missing catterpillers

As some of you may have guessed from my last post we have a butterfly farm. This year we have very picky caterpillars. They like to leave their box and crawl all over the table. I call them little escape artists. Anyway three days ago we could only find 4 out of the five caterpillars that we had. I looked high and low for him but alas he was nowhere to be found. Today I was eating my breakfast of Pancakes and strawberries when I happened to look at the office doorway. That little caterpillar had climbed and crawled a total of 35 feet and 2 in. Dodging feet and hungry cats ( Actually I don't think cats eat bugs) to make a chrysalis in the doorway of the office. I guess I will never understand nature or crazy caterpillars.

*Louisa*

How to bulid a butterfly house

Step 1 get a clean pizza box or other type of container to hold the caterpillars.

Step 2

get a net or a something that resembles this and put it on top of the box.

Tip: when using a plain old net, prop it up with sticks because the caterpillars will climb up the net

Step 3

find milk weed (it looks like this)

(random green frog on milkweed)

Step 4

find the monarch butterfly caterpillars. they will be on the milk weed so make sure you look under under the leaves.

see if you can find all 3 catterpillers in this pic.

Step 5

Put them in the habitat you made. Remember to give them fresh milkweed every day and to mist the plants with water

Step 6

Next you caterpillars will make the J form this means they are ready to become chrysalises. This will take eight hours and 29 minutes.

Step 7

12 days later the chrysalis will turn black. 3 hours after that it will turn clear and then 1 hour and 3 minutes later you willhave monarch butterflies