Forget expensive butterfly kits

The kids have been playing with caterpillars that are yellow, black, and white for the past week then they started noticing chrysalis' hanging on trees, fences, and then one on our pineapple plant. These chrysalis' are green with shiny gold spots on them, when they turn black you can start to see the orange and black wings and you know it will just be a matter of hours before the are out. Trent spotted this one that had just hatched and was gnawing on it's empty shell. It was amazing to watch it up close since it wasn't afraid of us yet. We watched it flap it's wings a few times then it had two trial flights before it was off. Guess we will skip learning about butterflies when our homeschool curriculum tells us too. Butterfly metamorphosis, check. (By the way these pictures are in reverse order.)