For Brynn's birthday I bought one of those Butterfly Habitat things off Amazon. They send you the little cage first along with a postcard for your caterpillars. Then you send off for the caterpillars when you're ready and they come in a little plastic tub with all their food in the bottom.
Within 3 days our caterpillars had more than doubled in size and on the 4th day they hung themselves upside down from the lid and transformed into chrysalides.
About a week later our butterflies emerged. We missed the birth but found them shortly after and were able to witness them change from brown to orange and black.
Here are the shells of their chrysalides.
Apparently they like to suck on fresh oranges. You are supposed to let them free after a few days, which is what we did this morning.
They all went straight to my massive 'Butterfly Bush' and began drinking the nectar. It was a really fun experiment and the kids had a blast watching them transform everyday.
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