Monarch Caterpillar Update
Daddy brought home 2 more caterpillars on Wed and one of the worms was mature already. So he began to hang and spin his chrysalis that night and when we checked him yesterday morning he was finished.
Then today Hermie and Wormie decided to hang from the top or our jar. We went out shopping and were hoping to get home in time to watch them, but only 2 hours later we found them like this. Boy they are fast!
Now we still have one smaller caterpillar who is working up his weight. So we stopped off to grab some fresh milkweed and found these on one of the leaves. Definitely one more baby and looks like 2 of the eggs had hatched as well.
Anyone want to adopt?
Seems as though lots of other homeschoolers are rearing butterflies too! Check out Jolanthe’s post about the birth of their butterflies over at Homeschool Creations. If you have posted about your butterflies, lmk so I can link you up too 
Ohhh this would be so much fun. Gracie saw a thing on tv that you could buy and do this but I was like no way. Tell me more!!
Anxiously awaiting more pictures…
Hey!!! I was going thru my blogroll and updating to see who is still active (since I was MIA for awhile too) and visited your Scrap With Nikki site. **Then** I saw you were also a homeschool mom!! Yea!!! We did swallowtail butterflies a few years ago. They come from parsley worms and if you have a parsley plant, you probably will see the caterpillars eating it at some point. The butterflies are beautiful black with bright blue. Also, saw you are in THL, I just joined.
Hi Adena!
Thanks for stopping by! Yep I did some major blog re-arranging hehe. Thanks for the tip on swallowtails, we will definitely plant more parsley in the spring so we can try to find these caterpillars too! We found some other caterpillars this week and working on identifying them all. We have them all except one. Glad to hear you joined THL too!