butterfly larvae Archives - Mama.Papa.Bubba. https://mamapapabubba.com/tag/butterfly-larvae/ Thu, 01 May 2014 21:24:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 56460141 Gracen Raises Butterflies: Release Day https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/25/gracen-raises-butterflies-release-day/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/25/gracen-raises-butterflies-release-day/#respond Sun, 26 May 2013 06:32:26 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12251 Well, the big day finally came…  As of yesterday morning, all 8 of our caterpillars had successfully completed the transition to butterflies (yay for a 100% success rate!)  We watched them for one final day, the newbies drying and pumping up their wings and the others slurping up juice from fresh fruit, knowing that if… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/25/gracen-raises-butterflies-release-day/feed/ 0 12251 Gracen Raises Butterflies: We Have TWO! https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/21/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-two/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/21/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-two/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 05:36:30 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12178 Day 13:  We woke up to our very first butterfly!  We’re not sure when it actually emerged, but we found it still hanging upside down from it’s chrysalis pumping up and drying out its wings. Then, not an hour later, as we were checking on our lone butterfly, we noticed a second one fully emerged… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/21/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-two/feed/ 1 12178 Gracen Raises Butterflies: Caterpillars to Chrysalises https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/15/gracen-raises-butterflies-caterpillars-to-chrysalises/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/15/gracen-raises-butterflies-caterpillars-to-chrysalises/#respond Wed, 15 May 2013 17:53:53 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12118 Day 7:  It’s official.  All of our fuzzy little caterpillars have successfully built chrysalises and are hanging from their container lids waiting for the big transformation to occur. Though it’ll still be several days until they start emerging as butterflies, this morning we moved our little table and hanging structure directly under our homemade butterfly… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/15/gracen-raises-butterflies-caterpillars-to-chrysalises/feed/ 0 12118 Butterfly Talk https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/14/butterfly-talk/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/14/butterfly-talk/#respond Tue, 14 May 2013 18:33:21 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12110 (showing them the impromptu drawing she did of the butterfly life stages) ‘Yook, chrysalises.  Yook what I made for you.’  ‘Hello, yittle chrysalises!  Yook, I’m a butterfly just like you’re going to be!’ ♥  For extra fun, like us on Facebook here and find us on Instagram here.

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/14/butterfly-talk/feed/ 0 12110 Gracen Raises Butterflies: Hanging Our Chrysalises https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/13/gracen-raises-butterflies-hanging-our-chrysalises/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/13/gracen-raises-butterflies-hanging-our-chrysalises/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 18:00:04 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12102 With our butterfly enclosure ready and our first chrysalises ready to be hung, Miss G and I had to get a little creative this morning.  When raising butterflies in my classroom, I used to hang the chrysalises from the inside of a wooden block that was open on two sides, but without one of those… Read More

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