OMG its a butterfly!

[Wildsky]

SO many many months ago - probably July or August last year, I found this BIG FAT orange caterpiller walking in our garage..... I called the kids to show them, and we put the worm in a bucket with some grass/hay etc.... to watch.

Well the darn worm went straight into a cocoon type stage and that was it! The bucket has been on the shelf in the garage, I didn't want to dump the poor thing, so through bitter freezing -30 snow etc... that thing stayed in a bucket.

Every now and then the kids see the bucket and wanted to have a look, so I'll bring it down and we'd look at that ugly brown blob.

Well, today my son said lets look at the worm, I took the bucket down and................

 

[Kanchii]

That's awesome!!!

 

[KellyGwen]

That is so cool!

Years ago when I was in elementary school I was taking my dogs for a hike through the woods near my house. I walked through this field and saw all of these weird cocoons in the grass. I collected about 20 of them and brought them home. I put them in a flower pot on the back patio and completely forgot about them.

A few months later our backyard was SWARMED with LUNAR MOTHS! It was SO NEAT!!

That is a great experience for your kids! Don't let the chickens catch him!

 

[penelope77]

that's really neat. my son did something similar but forgot about them. heard something in his room and looked in the tub and he had huge moths. yours is much prettier!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[nutmeggie]

How pretty!! I love butterflys. I want to plant flowers that attract them so I can try to get good pictures of them.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

nice

Love butterflys...

 

[tiffanyh]

Very pretty!

 

[dangerouschicken]

If I would have found that worm wriggling in my garage, I would have fed it to my chooks

How smart to let it "do its thing" and turn into a gorgeous winged beauty like that

My three little girls are sooo jealous!

 

[Wildsky]

Lucky worm - I only got my chickens in August!

I'm still shocked we actually LOOKED in that bucket right at that moment, I mean it could have happened last week and it would have just flown away, the silly butterfly picked a real windy day to come out. I would have moved it to a tree or something, but its WAY too windy!