Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Butterfly ranching 101

So I am now in the business of raising butterflies. The pictures below are from this past weekend at my in-law's house. My father-in-law is a former high school science teacher and he does this every summer. For the past few years he has given me a chrysalis or two and we have watched them emerge. Actually we always miss the actual "birth", we usually notice after the butterfly has already come out. It is harder to time it than you think.

Anyway, I got the full lesson on how to find the monarch eggs, how to gather, feed and clean up after the caterpillars (I have to remove their poop, people). Roger also taught me how to carefully remove the chryslis from the top of the jar and tie it to a tiny branch. I now have 2 chryslises(sp?) 7 jars with caterpillars munching away on leaves, and approximately 10-12 leaves with eggs on them. Now I just need suggestions for names.

Can you tell I am a birth junkie?!!

4 Comments:

Blogger Milliner's Dream, a woman of many "hats"... said...

Name suggestions:

Ferdinand (for Lamaze)
Penny (for Simkim)

or

Naissance (birth in French)
Nacimiento (birth in Spanish)
Nascita (birth in Italian)

I've got other ideas, too, of course!

Hannah :)

August 16, 2005  
Blogger Milliner's Dream, a woman of many "hats"... said...

Simkin, I meant, arghh...

August 16, 2005  
Blogger T$ said...

keep em coming Hannah. Your suggestions are so much better than Spongebob and Squidward. Which are the names my kids are coming up with.

T$

August 16, 2005  
Blogger Milliner's Dream, a woman of many "hats"... said...

How about King and Queen, Prince and Princess? THEY ARE MONARCHS! :)

Or:

Farfalla (butterfly in Italian)
Papillon (butterfly in French)
Mariposa (butterfly in Spanish)

Hh

August 16, 2005  

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