Butterfly Gardening

Fairy Gardening!

Join me as a venture into the World of Fairy Gardening!

FAIRY GARDEN CLUB STARTING UP SOON!

Look What a Huakailani Girl found in the Parking Lot

This butterfly was found in the parking lot near our school.
It wasn't moving and it can't fly.

A Huakailani student saw this crumpled butterfly and took it in to the school.
We are all hoping it will be okay.

Metamorphosis Caught in Action - Welcome to a New World!

This is what happened next.

Mr. B took this beautiful photo of a chrysalis. Looks like a butterfly will be emerging soon!

The Caterpillar Outside of Our Classroom has Hatched

It was caterpillar, caterpillar all over again and all of the crown flower leaves have once again been munched away!

All is quiet as beautiful chrysalis hang in the classroom once again.

This time we only rescued around 15 caterpillars. We left the rest outside to see how they would do in the wild. So far one caterpillar is still munching away in the garden.

Will post pictures soon.

Butterflies Laid Eggs

We released all of our butterflies this time! We released around 70 butterflies!!

GUESS WHAT!

We found eggs in the Crown Flower Garden.

Can you spot the eggs?

We have seen our butterflies fluttering around Kailua Town every day!

We have butterflies!

A "GREEN" Caterpillar

Look where we found a chrysalis. This caterpillar was an environmentally friendly one. He decided to hang out on the recycle bin.

This is a close up of the chrysalis. COOL!

All of the caterpillars in the Lower School are now in Chrysalis and only about two caterpillars remain in the Upper School.

The ones we found on the safety vest and recycle bin were escapees.

Here is another escape, we found right outside our classroom door munching on a crown flower plant we have out there. IT IS HUGE!!!! We think it is be biggest one we have raised yet.

We are hypothesizing that big caterpillars will be come big butterflies. We shall see!