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| The caterpillars on July 20th |
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| The caterpillars on July 24th |
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| July 25th--Just one caterpillar still crawling on top, in jar on left |
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| July 26th-- Chrysalides! |
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| Chrysalides |
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| The caterpillars forming "J's" on July 25th |
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| More views from July 25th |
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| Decorating the cover for the butterfly habitat |
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| Phaedra and Alanah decorating the lid and Charli |
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| The completed cover with a sun drawn on the "butterfly" side |
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| The butterflies! |
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| This is the closest we got to seeing one actually emerge from the chrysalis |
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| Brian and Alanah watching the new butterflies |
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| We brought in hydrangeas and put a cotton ball and honey water in a tiny cup |
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| We took one last good look at our butterflies before we brought them out to release them |
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| The plastic wrap on top made it much lighter inside the habitat |
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| Outside- a few butterflies are already at the top |
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| Carefully removing the plastic |
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| Phaedra had one land right on her shoulder |
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| If we put our finger out very slowly and gently, the butterfly would crawl on to it! |
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| Lelia |
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| Clover with the second habitat |
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| And we are ready to release the next 5 butterflies |
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| Alanah holds one carefully |
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| It stayed there for a long time! |
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| Then it flew into the grass and Clover tried to get it to climb onto her finger |
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| Clover has the butterfly! |
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| We love our butterflies! Sometimes we still see one fly by when we are playing outside! |
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