Our milkweed plant keeps on giving. Lots of excitement in Rosella today with a third caterpillar being discovered this morning. It's a good size, so it has been hiding out under a milkweed leaf munching away for a while! Here they all are:
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Our first hatched caterpillar is now about 15mm long, with our second caterpillar about 9mm long. Here are photos and some video of them today. Here are the latest photos of our two caterpillars munching away today. Our first hatched! Our second addition!
Our caterpillar has grown slightly and is still munching away on the milkweed leaves. Mr Dowling lent us a class set of magnifying glasses from Heathcote High School so we can all keep a close eye on our caterpillar's development at any time of the day! Today's photos of our caterpillar. Some video action! Looks like our caterpillar was having a rest! Great excitement in Rosella today when we saw how much our caterpillar is growing. It is about 6mm long now. Looking at it first thing this morning we could see that it had shed its skin. This will happen five times over the next couple of weeks. The caterpillar will eat the skin (this is normal) before it keeps munching away on the green leaf. Caterpillars keep on eating at this larva stage, so that's why they are called 'eating machines'!
Our caterpillar is an eating machine and growing quickly! Super excitement in Rosella this morning! We arrived at school to find a caterpillar had hatched from the egg and it was tiny! We think it grew a little bit during the day; it must be the yummy leaf it is eating. We think it will be a very hungry caterpillar!
Rosella are so excited because we are about to witness the life cycle of a Monarch Butterfly in real life! Thanks to Mrs Badham who has found all Kinder classes an egg that has just been laid by a Monarch Butterfly on a milkweed plant. Monarch females usually lay a single egg on a milkweed plant, often on the bottom of a leaf near the top of the plant. As females lay their eggs, they secrete a small amount of glue to attach the eggs directly to the plant. The egg is tiny and it's an off-white colour. The egg could hatch in about four days; it does depend on the temperature though. We are so excited and we will keep you posted!
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About UsRosella is a class of 17 happy and enthusiastic children excited to be in Kindergarten at Helensburgh PS in 2017. Our teachers are Mrs Jan Fuller (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) and Mrs Sue Dowling (Thursday and Friday) Our school is in NSW, Australia. Please feed Jig an apple and spray him clean if he rolls in the mud!
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