Watch a Caterpillar turn into a Butterfly

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This was great for Harry, who is five but I loved it too. It was very educational.

Sadly, I didn’t catch my own caterpillar. I bought a kit from InsectLore.co.uk

It came with five minuscule caterpillars inside a food tub and a net for when they made their chrysalises. 

After about a week in the food tub, the caterpillars were huge and I felt terrible for them so I wanted to release them to the net early. Mark made a frame for them to form their chrysalises on and I added fresh leaves. It was still captivity but I wanted them out of the pot to experience a leaf and actual crawling. I was worried it was a mistake and I’d not get them to metamorphosis into caterpillars but it was a risk worth taking. I couldn’t possibly leave five fully grown caterpillars in a ten centimeter tub. 

Around a week went by and four formed chrysalises on the roof of the net, not the handy frame, and one, sadly, died. 

Another two weeks passed and I went to the coast for the weekend with friends and Mark and Harry reported they’d hatched! I couldn’t believe it! I’d not even got twenty miles up the road when he video called (I was not driving) with the news. He fed them the feed provided in the kit and we released them on my return two days later.