Caterpillars!

We are raising caterpillars which we found on our milkweed plants. The caterpillars were getting eaten by the lizards so we cut some milkweed and brought it inside. The milkweed kept dying because there wasn't enough sunlight and the airconditioning wasn't helping either. We brought them outside and the next day we think one got stung by a wasp because it looked like it had exploded and a wasp was eating it. That's when we learned that wasps are carnivores and predators.

The next day, before my dad went to work, my mom asked if he could build something to go over them so protect them from lizards and wasps. We also wanted a place where we could see them turn into chrysalises. (Chrysalises are what they go into when they turn into butterflies.)

The two fattest and biggest ones went into their chrysalises. We are waiting for the butterflies to come out.