The promise of Monarchs and a curious five-year old
Hal at dex.pathlink.com
Hal at dex.pathlink.com
Mon Aug 6 12:02:27 EDT 2001
Walmart, in the pet department, sells a clear plastic box with a
colored vented top and small door that works well. Sorry I can't
recall the exact name, but the pet clerk should be familiar with it.
I have a Black Swallowtail larvae feeding on some parsley in one above
my pc desk. I've done this with several Gulf Fritillary that left the
maypop vine, but I'm glad I chose to bring one of these inside while
it was still eating. I went back to check on another 5 feeding on
parsley outside and they were gone. I suppose a bird must have found
them.
Regards,
Hal
On 5 Aug 2001 20:56:50 -0700, solomogo at worldnet.att.net (Gary) wrote:
>We let some milkweed grow behind our house because we were concerned
>about disappearing habitat for Monarchs in our area, plus I was too
>lazy to cut it down. My five-year old son started picking the
>caterpillars off today and I told him to leave them alone since we
>wanted them to become butterflies and we didn't have anything suitable
>to keep them in. Now we are wondering if there is a way to provide a
>convenient branch for them to affix to and be able to observe their
>transformation into adults. There was a butterfly exhibit we saw
>recently where there were many chrysalides in a box. We were curious
>how that was done and if it would be possible to do this ourselves
>with some of the caterpillars on our milkweed. Anybody have any
>ideas? Any information would be appreciated.
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