A Surprise Awaits...

So we happen to have a jar

that we keep on hand for collecting bugs.

The plan is we keep them overnight to identify

them and observe them.

The kids are allowed to collect anything

that will be caught.

Well, Ceesa found a caterpillar.

She picked it up with a stick

and plopped in its jar.

I set to work trying to identify it.

It was black with brown lines on its

back and it had spikes (so to speak),

maybe they'd be called tufts.

Well the first day, I couldn't identify it.

I looked several places, but just

couldn't figure out what it was.

On the next day, I noticed it had

attached itself to the side of the glass

and within an hour

it had turned itself into

a cocoon or chrysalis.

And it looked as if its head

or part of it's body anyway

(some of the spikes)

fell clean off.

Uhh...I wasn't ready for that.

 So now we wait...

Wishing you homeschool blessings,
Bethany