Sunday, April 8, 2018

Butterflies, Butterflies

We have been so lucky to watch butterflies hatch this week.  Thank you to Zoe who brought in 5 chrysalis for us.
We managed to watch a butterfly hatch only after a few seconds of it starting to emerge.  
Look how big the abdomen is and how small the wings are when it first comes out.


Then another one hatched, and this time Edie came to tag it as part of our monarch butterfly tagging programme.
Holding the butterfly carefully to apply the tag


Tag on!
Edie talking to the children about why we tag the butterflies:



All ready to fly away!  I wonder where the butterfly will fly away to?

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