September 12, 2008
Butterflies
Beka’s teacher sent home a page about tracking monarch butterflies. Also, the Butterfly Lady came to school and explained all about catching butterflies, raising butterflies, and brought a bunch of butterflies with her. In the course of this, Beka has become butterfly crazy. She goes out into the field by our house armed with her butterfly net and proceeds to catch and release butterflies. Last Saturday she caught 31 butterflies. Six of which where monarchs. She really loves doing this. We are planning on planting some butterfly attracting plants in the yard. We may also need to get a bigger net for her.
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Our grandkids love monarchs, too. They collected monarch caterpillars and kept them through the chrysalis stage, then learned how to tell boy butterflies from girl butterflies.
There are pictues on our family blog.
You have a nice site.