Caterpillars

[gudrin]

Has anyone here successfully "grown" a caterpillar into a moth or butterfly?

I have a caterpillar that I found on one of my okra plants. I put it into my daughter's bug catcher so that she could see it, and then I was going to let it go. My husband wants to keep it until it turns into a moth.

I looked it up online and I believe it's a "Yellow Woolly Bear" caterpillar. I have to go get more stuff for it to eat, but what else should we be doing? I still want to let it go, but my husband says it will be a good lesson for my daughter...So would letting it go, is what I think, but anyway...

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!

 

[HorseFeathers]

We raised Monarch Butterfly caterpillars in second grade... and hatched chicken eggs...

 

[2468Chickensrgr8]

My daughter and I two years ago put a Monarch catipillar in a jar with holes and left it on our kitchen counter

Put a big milk weed in the jar and kept on replacing it for new ones and it turned in a cocoon ...not the right word ...

..and a beautiful butterfly emerged later ...We let it go ....She learned alot ...She still talks about it and always checks milkweeds ....

 

[TerriLaChicks]

We've raised several Black Swallowtail butterflies. They lay on our citrus trees so I carefully cut the branch w/several cocoons on it & put it in a corner of the back porch & sure enough, they hatched out!

 

[fhdogs]

I haven't raised a caterpillar, but I just happened to photograph this one yesterday!

Thanks gudrin for giving me an excuse to show it...

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! See if this slideshow will work for you.
Eclosing

It's from a few years ago but it's still cool to watch.

Lisa

 

[AnimalLady123]

That was a very nice "video" I loved it!!

 

[AnimalLady123]

<<<This is a Yellow Woolly Bear Moth

 

[RHRanch]

<<<This is a Yellow Woolly Bear Moth

He's cute!

 

[StarLover21]

Oh yes! I've raised painted ladies, and several other butterflies. In fact one of the caterpillars I'm raising just made a cocoon yesterday- a little brown shell. I think it's going to be some sort of ugly brown moth- it's really small, but ah well

It's really easy, all they do is eat. Supply the caterpillar with fresh leaves every day, and hang up a stick for it to make it's cocoon on. Or, as mine did, it may just make it on the leaf if it is a moth.