Ugly to Beautiful

A few weeks ago, Ellie and I found the ugliest caterpillar I've ever seen on our sidewalk. So ugly in fact, we carried it home on a stick to show the rest of the family. We put it inside our bug catcher. A day later, it had formed a chrysalis inside the bug catcher. We learned about it with help of the Internet (It is a tiger swallowtail caterpillar) and checked on it everyday.



Tonight when we came home from swimming, a huge beautiful butterfly had just emerged! We knew from our butterfly class we took with Mikayla this spring that it would need to let it's wings spread out, dry, and to eat in order to have the energy to fly for the first time. It didn't have enough room to do any of that inside the bug catcher. Our only choice was to carefully place it outside.





Funny, it landed in the kids sandbox on a toy car. If you can't fly yet, you might as well choose your own mode of transportation I guess.