Saturday, July 4, 2009

moths and butterflies

A few weeks ago I posted about a caterpillar that came home with Abby from her camping trip with Shawn. The caterpillar evolved into a little brown moth and we released it awhile ago. Abby also found a mourning cloak caterpillar on our front steps and we kept that as well. About three days ago we were looking in the jar and found the butterfly and so released it. Abby was excited to see it fly away but then got really sad. I don't think she realized how fast the butterfly would fly away as we barely could keep an eye on it before it was out of sight.







Joe loved to look at the jar and watch the caterpillar eating leaves. Once the caterpillar turned into the pupa he still loved to stare into the jar but I don't think he really "got" what happened to the caterpillar :)

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