Monday, April 14, 2014

The Monarch Butterfly: Aina Polkabot

A colleague brought me a monarch chrysalis that had formed on a binder clip. We've been watching it change over the past two weeks. 

The chrysalis

Beginning to see the wings forming
The chrysalis got to spend a few days at pre-school.
On Sunday morning we woke up to find the chrysalis turned black. We could just see the orange butterfly wings inside.
On Sunday evening the butterfly emerged




Vivi named it "Aina Polkabot" - aina after her friend and polkabot because it looked like it was wearing polka dots and vivi says polka bot for polka dots.


It's a boy! We can tell by the two black dots near the center of each of the smaller wings.



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