Live Butterfly Garden

Aunt Beth for Lexi's birthday sent her a Live Butterfly Garden. You receive in the mail a butterfly tent and then you send by mail to receive your larvae. I thought you only received two but we were sent five (most likely the norm). You keep the larvae in the cup they come in, after about a week they form there cocoons and a week later they are suppose to emerge from the cocoons. We received in the mail these tiny larvae and after just a few days they are HUGE!! They are all crawling up to the top today so I am curious to see if they are going to start making there cocoons. We are having some fun watching and waiting with these curious creatures. I did see something similar at Target, just a bit cheaper (by $2-3). At the website there are a ton of other creative things to get. They have a hermit crab garden, ant farm, just tons of fun, fun, things.



We will try and post a picture of the cocoons and of course the butterflies. I cannot decide if I want to let the butterflies go or if we should try and keep them and then preserve them when their time here is done. We will just have to see.