Butterflies finally emerge!
- AspireED
- Jul 20
- 1 min read
After three and half weeks of patient waiting, the butterflies have emerged!
The students have been writing their observations in journals, documenting how caterpillars ate and grew continuously, then climbed to the top of their cup, created a silk button, hung upside down, and transformed into chrysalids.
We transferred the chrysalids into a butterfly pavillion. The chrysalids quivered from time to time when touched or if the pavillion shook gently, but were otherwise quiet. Then one day, a butterfly emerged, followed by another, and another.
Every student was able to release at least one butterfly.
Sometimes, no matter how how hard Alyssa, Jasmine, and Meerab tried, a butterfly escaped. So good thing we had planned ahead and started with extra caterpillars!
What was interesting was that the butterflies from one class emerged a week earlier than for another class. We think it was because chrysalids, when exposed to warmer temperatures and some sunlight in one classroom, transformed quicker due to favorable conditions. Whereas chrysalids from the cooler classroom at the back of the building preferred to stay dormant longer.
We were lucky to have the Marin IJ newspaper on site for one of our classes. The kids happily shared their butterfly experience!
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