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The Life Cycle of an Asian Ladybeetle
While I was outside exploring nature this week, I came across a fallen leaf with the pupa of an Asian Ladybeetle on it! I couldn’t believe my eyes! I ran inside and showed my mom. We put the pupa under a microscope and saw how it was attached to the leaf. Then we went to…
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Variegated fritillary butterfly!
Today is my last day in Ohio before traveling back to Georgia, so it was time for me to pack up my bug collecting equipment. I went to check on my variegated fritillary chrysalis one last time. I opened the habitat and noticed the chrysalis looked different. I touched the chrysalis and it felt empty!…
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Variegated fritillary – update!
My variegated fritillary caterpillar made a chrysalis! I’ve been checking every day to see if anything would happen! I looked it up online and the internet says it could take anywhere from 5 days to a few weeks for a butterfly to emerge. I’m so excited to see what happens next!
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Variegated Fritillary Butterfly (Caterpillar)
Check out this amazing specimen I found! This is a Variegated Fritillary butterfly caterpillar. It has six rows of black spines and has a pair of long, clubbed spines on the head. I found him on our patio. Grandpa Ron had just given me a bug habitat a few minutes earlier and he was my…