YAY! Our little butterfly larvae arrived today! It was a nice change to the formula and newborn diaper samples that are mercilessly filling our mail box nearly every day now. I was a little nervous as I opened the box, wondering what I would really find in there. However, there were 4 fat caterpillars that seemed very stunned but within just a few minutes, started crawling around. A fifth tiny one, that I was ready to write off as dead, finally started moving a bit after about 30 minutes and is now, happily keeping up with the rest of them.
According to the instructions, in the next 7 to 10 days they should form the chrysalis and then 7 to 10 days following that, they should emerge as Painted Lady butterflies. Even if they take the maximum amount of time to mature. They should be ready right at Eli's estimated due date. I think we'll help them grow a bit, so we won't release them on the date that we were given from his first sonogram. The kids, hey me too for that matter, are looking forward to feeding the butterflies and taking care of them for a little bit before we release them. Frankly, right now I'm just glad that they arrived for now, safe and sound. Maybe things are looking up!
3 comments:
That's so cool! My nieces would love getting butterfly larvae as a gift, where did you get them from?
lovely idea.
my aunt has dragonfly larvae (can't remember, they have some word they're called!) in her pond and they are SCARY looking. it is so amazing to watch how life transforms.
I never heard of that, cant wait to see pixs of them as butterflies!
-h
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