Little Surprises in Unquowa’s Garden!
Posted by Ann PalmIn the fall there is a surprise in the Unquowa Garden! They are very small creatures that love and only eat milkweed. On the milkweed leaves Kindergarten found very small caterpillars. We brought them inside thinking we had two caterpillars but we actually had five hidden in the leaves! What a surprise! Daily we watched them change. “What are those black balls at the bottom of the aquarium?” the Kindergarteners asked. We soon learned that as the caterpillars grow they loose their skin and grow new skin. The black balls are their old skin. When the caterpillar hangs from the top of the aquarium looking like a letter J we know it’s getting ready to makes it’s chrysalis. The chrysalis is beautiful. It is bright green with gold dots. “Can we keep the gold?” asked the Kindergarteners. Again another discovery, after the chrysalis breaks open the gold is gone. Could it be in the color of the butterflies wings? After observing our adult Monarch butterflies for a few days we let them free. Some of us were sad to see them go and we wondered what else we could find in Unquowa’s garden?
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