MONARCH
BUTTERFLIES – BY ALEX T
Every year we go to a nursery and
buy a swan plant with baby Monarch butterfly caterpillars on it. The caterpillars eat the swan plant until
they get really big and fat.
Then
they attach themselves to a leaf and curl up in a hook shape like you see in this
picture.
It
doesn’t take them long to turn into a chrysalis – it is bright green with a row
of gold dots around the top.
After
a couple of weeks it turns black, then in a few days it cracks open and the
butterfly comes out.
When
it first comes out the butterfly’s wings are all screwed up and the body is
big. It pumps it’s wings and they unfold. After an hour or two the wings are big and
smooth and the body is smaller, then it can fly away. This is the butterfly on 25 February 2013.
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