A couple of weeks ago Mimi and Emily clipped a rose and put it in the kitchen.
It was very lovely but I noticed that the leaves were a little chewed up.
Now, I didn't know what it looked like when it came in the house (whether or not the leaves were as well munched as they were at the time I inspected) but I did see something else in the bottom of the glass "vase."
Now, I may be sleep deprived but I figured that these two clues could mean only one thing... we had a visitor that came in with the rose!
Luckily, Emily had just received a new bug jar so we removed the leaf with the caterpillar as well as an extra one...
and put them in the jar.
It was the perfect place for Emily to keep her new friend and be able to check in on him regularly...
until he got out the air hole... twice. The first time Daddy found him up on the lid. The second? Well, let's just say we may soon have a moth or butterfly flitting about in our house! We should be able to tell you which because after the great escape we found another caterpillar out on the rosebushes and as soon as we put him in our bug jar he spun a cocoon (or chrysalis if it's a butterfly) in between the two leaves we provided. Hope he makes the change soon!
Nature is awesome! Noah loves caterpillars, too. How fun to have a bug jar to keep an eye on him. Hopefully this one stays in the jar until it emerges. Can't wait to see what you get...
ReplyDeleteCool! What a great science lesson! Love the pic of Emily kissing Everett at the top.
ReplyDeleteNice! Be patient though, Jay and I had a caterpillar turned chrysalis years ago and waited for months for it "hatch" and it never did. Then when we thought it must have just died Jay kind of destroyed it (boys!) and turns out it was still alive and making it's transformation. Pretty gross. Wait it out was the lesson learned.
ReplyDeleteNature lessons are always fascinating, especially when one can watch so closely!
ReplyDeleteLove, Aunt Carolyn