Lab Week 3

This week in lab we learned more about life cycles. We talked about life cycles of meal worms and butterflies, as well as life cycles of plants. Both of these insects go through a complete metamorphosis, meaning they go through 4 stages. The stages are egg, larva, pupa, adult. A plant goes through 3 stages: seed, seedling, and plant. One of things I can relate to what I have done already is raising butterflies and using a butterfly habitat. When I was growing up, my parents would either order the baby caterpillars or we would find caterpillars out in our yard and put them in our butterfly habitat to watch them grow. Because of this, I knew the process of butterflies exiting their chrysalis and drying their wings, etc. One question that I have always wondered about and still do is, what happens inside the chrysalis as the caterpillar turns into the butterfly? How does it change?

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  1. Ava TurnquistFebruary 1, 2023 at 12:31 PM

    Hi Brenna! I also had experience raising butterflies in second grade with my class. It was probably my favorite science unit. I also wonder what the caterpillar looks like when it is in its chrysalis stage and how it grows wings!

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  2. Nina GambinoFebruary 1, 2023 at 1:06 PM

    Hi Brenna! I have raised butterflies as well. My little sister and I thought it would be a fun COVID project during lockdown. It definitely helped me in lab today and it is nice to see you have that experience as well, even more-so than I. Also, I loved your question as I was thinking about that today in lab. Where does the body go? Is it still in there? Nice to see we all were thinking similar things.

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  3. Laura TownsendFebruary 5, 2023 at 5:52 PM

    Hi Brenna! I also grew butterflies when I was younger. I loved seeing the caterpillar turn into a butterfly in my own classroom. I think it would would be really cool to see all the changes that happen while the butterfly is in the chrysalis!

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