Friday, January 23, 2009

Science in action

We have a couple of wooly bear catapillars that came in on our clothing last fall/early winter.

Deciding they would be a good science project for the children, we put them in a mason jar and stabbed holes in the lid.  I've been keeping a bit of water and alternating between basil and lemon balm stalks for them to live on.

I checked on them about a week ago and noticed one in a cocoon.  Yesterday, I noticed the beginnings of another cocoon.



You can see the "hairs" of the new cocoom being formed. This morning, I noticed the cocoon was fully formed an will get pictures of it to upload later.

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