Butterfly Life Cycle

During the past few weeks, we have been watching our painted lady caterpillars go through their life cycle.  


After we had the caterpillars for about a week, they started to get really big and active.  They are also spending a lot of time on the top of their enclosure and practicing hanging in a J prior to becoming a chrysalis.

Here we got the unique opportunity to witness one of the butterflies hatching out of its chrysalis.