Gracen raises butterflies Archives - Mama.Papa.Bubba. https://mamapapabubba.com/tag/gracen-raises-butterflies/ 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 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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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/13/gracen-raises-butterflies-hanging-our-chrysalises/feed/ 1 12102 Gracen Raises Butterflies: We Have Chrysalises! https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/12/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-chrysalises/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/12/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-chrysalises/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 06:42:53 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12051 It’s day 4 with our caterpillars and look at what we have today!  We woke up to find that three of our fuzzy little caterpillars had build their chrysalises over night.  We were actually cleaning up from breakfast already when Gracen called out, “Some of the caterpillars built their chrysalises, Mama!” And thank goodness.  If… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/12/gracen-raises-butterflies-we-have-chrysalises/feed/ 1 12051 Gracen Raises Butterflies: Preparing Our Butterfly Enclosure https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/11/gracen-raises-butterflies-preparing-our-butterfly-enclosure/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/11/gracen-raises-butterflies-preparing-our-butterfly-enclosure/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 06:39:23 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12045 With our fuzzy little friends happily in their new homes eating themselves silly, today Miss G and I went out to the garage to dig up one of the butterfly homes I made years ago when teaching my first ever Kindergarten class.  Of course, there are probably many different butterfly huts available for purchase online,… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/11/gracen-raises-butterflies-preparing-our-butterfly-enclosure/feed/ 1 12045 Gracen Raises Butterflies: The Caterpillar Transfer https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/09/gracen-raises-butterflies-the-caterpillar-transfer/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/09/gracen-raises-butterflies-the-caterpillar-transfer/#respond Thu, 09 May 2013 21:51:46 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=12012 After receiving our fuzzy little friends yesterday afternoon, Miss G and I were excited to get them settled into their new homes.  Now while this particular kit said that we could leave the caterpillars right in the shipping container to build their chrysalises, I’ve always transferred them into smaller containers in the past, so I… Read More

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]]> https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/09/gracen-raises-butterflies-the-caterpillar-transfer/feed/ 0 12012 Gracen Raises Butterflies: They’re Here! https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/08/project-butterfly/ https://mamapapabubba.com/2013/05/08/project-butterfly/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 06:55:35 +0000 https://mamapapabubba.com/?p=11965 When I saw that the awesome teachers’ store in our hometown, Vernon Teach & Learn, was selling butterfly larvae, I jumped on the opportunity and immediately put an order through by phone.  Now while I’m well aware that some people may think raising butterflies in your home is a tad on the crazy side, I… Read More

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