For those of you who have been following our caterpillars, my apologies for the lack of posts following the caterpillars transformation to butterflies. 3 of the butterflies emerged on June 5th and the final 2 arrived on June 6th as we were en route to the Seegers farm. Grandpa and Grandma Seegers helped Bailey care for the butterflies while I was on my 6th tour of colleges in Iowa. The trip has been a highlight of my summer since taking it in 2004 and always gets me thinking. Riding in a charter bus across Iowa, a person has a lot of time to think.On Saturday, June 13th, we released the butterflies back in Mount Pleasant. The instructions said they may stay close to home for a couple days, but that has not been the case. I was excited that we were able to see all 5 of them grow and finally release them to their natural habitat. Bailey had said in an earlier journal entry that she was going to name the butterflies, but then decided it was too hard to keep track of who was who so she named them all Morgan (see June 13 Journal entry). The butterfly above was the bravest of the bunch and took flight 10 minutes after taking them outside.
3 empty chrysallis and 2 getting ready to come out
Painted lady butterfly about a week after emerging from chrysallis
Butterflies like flowers and fruit. We had a sugar water mixture that we put on this flower. This butterfly was not quite ready to take off and stayed on the flower outside for about an hour.
This was the 4th butterfly to take off.
Bailey with her butterfly garden
Butterflies like flowers and fruit. We had a sugar water mixture that we put on this flower. This butterfly was not quite ready to take off and stayed on the flower outside for about an hour.This was the 4th butterfly to take off.Bailey with her butterfly gardenBailey tries coaxing the butterflies out of their home
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