painted lady butterflies Archives - Mama.Papa.Bubba. https://mamapapabubba.com/tag/painted-lady-butterflies/ Thu, 01 May 2014 21:23:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 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: 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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