Butterfly Project

This summer we have had several new 'pets' at our house. A friend of mine told me about hatching monarch butterflies and how easy it was. We have lost a couple along the way, but have released several and are on our last batch this fall. The best part is the only thing we have to feed them is milkweed.

They start out so small, but it doesn't take them much time to get bigger.

By the end they were eating more than one leaf a day.


Here is a cryslis, an empty cryslis and releasing our first butterfly.



The girls have loved this project. You can see how excited they are.

They also enjoy trying to catch all the other little butterflies that are around the zinnias and garden. This was Ella's 'outfit' for catching them one afternoon.