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Sunday, September 5, 2010

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


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