The Junior Room have been watching the process of caterpillars turning into butterflies over the last few weeks.
On Wednesday 19th May, we received our 5 caterpillars in their pot – this contained all the food they would need to form into their chrysalides.
On the 31st of May the caterpillars formed into chrysalides. We left them for 3 days to harden before transferring them into the butterfly net.
We waited patiently for them to emerge from their chrysalis.
On 10th June, when we arrived back from our walk and picnic, we noticed one had emerged – we were very excited! We put in some flowers, grass and nectar solution for the butterfly to feed on. They don’t move for a little while because they have to pump blood in their wings to strengthen them.
When we came in the next morning there were no more butterflies, but as the day went on, each one emerged from its chrysalis – by the end of the day, we had 5 butterflies!
The whole school went outside today to release the butterflies. Some of them flew high up into the sky, some them flew down on the grass and some of us even got to hold a butterfly for a few seconds!
It was a really interesting and fun experience to watch the caterpillars transform. We hope they start the butterfly life cycle all over again and lay some eggs!