Butterflies

Holly's teacher got some butterfly larvae a couple of weeks ago. They were in little plastic cups for a while (and very tiny, you could hardly see them), and then grew into rather large caterpillars. They cocooned and just started to emerge yesterday. These are Painted Lady Butterflies and the process was amazing to watch. They look like brown moths when their wings are closed, but when they are open, the colours are so vivid. The butterflies actually produce colour and it looks like they are bleeding, but they are really shedding their excess pigment.

These butterflies came from FlutterBuys - check them out: www.flutterbuys.ca.