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Great website guys! Knut from Melbourne, Australia. "Hi Jonathan and friends. Those caterpillars really grow fast. I like that you are learning to use centimetres as well as inches. Joe in Vancouver, Canada (Jonathan and his family's good friend)" //Wow! Thank you to everyone for sharing such interesting information or asking questions. Keep it up. You are helping us learn. Mrs. Walter// Hi Jonathan and everyone in the class. We loved looking at your project. We live in Spain and have big caterpillar nests in our pine trees. There are several hundred in one nest and when they crawl out they march along the ground altogether in a long line. They are called processional caterpillars. You have to keep out of their way! Good luck with your project! Martha and Geoff Pettit // We had not heard of caterpillars behaving like this and looked up the information. We agreed that we were just as happy to not have these locally. // // A nest of procession caterpillars. // //A procession.// I would like to know if anyone knows how long it will take for the catepillar to become a butterfly. Good work kids! Kathy from Texas //Hi Kathy from texas, it takes about 17-27 days for An egg to Become an butterfly.// //from Erin at sandburg elementary.// I love how you recorded your observations with both pictures and writing. What do you plan to do with the butterflies once they come out? Mrs. Bensen (Daniel's mom) // Dear Mrs.Bensen when the catapillers are adults we will releese them. // // From Erin at Sandburg elementary // // Thank you for drawing your pictures of how the caterpillar is growing, and how its body works. This is very interesting! Do you know what type of butterfly it will be? // // Mr. Asphaug (Jonathan's dad) // // Dear Mr. Asphaug, our caterpillars will soon be painted lady butterflies. Cooper at Sandburg. // We have black fuzzy caterpillars here in California, they are about 1-2 inches long and I find them sometimes on the ground now in April and sometimes into the summer. Are they really caterpillars or is there another name for the fuzzy ones? Erik in California (Jonathan's uncle!) // They are calld wooly bear caterpillars and the other name is pyrrharctia isabella.Jonathan at Sandburg. // Hi Jonathan and the rest of the class. Your project is very interesting. I have often seen caterpillars, but I have never seen one of them turn into a butterfly. But I had a very interesting experience once in Santa Cruz, California (where Jonathan’s cousins Henry and Galen live). I went to a eucalyptus forest there, where you can see thousands of Monarch butterflies that came from caterpillars who fed on the eucalyptus leaves there. It is called the Monarch Butterfly Natural Preserve.The butterflies will fly away and migrate to places as far away as Mexico, anatd then return to Santa Cruz the following year. Mormor (Jonathan’s grandmother) //Dear Johnathan's grandmother,// //Since You've never seen a caterpillar emerouge out of its chrysalis We hope you will check out Our web cam that we are going to set up, Thank you for writing to us,// //Tristan from Sandburg.// "I wondered if you fed the caterpillers, and then I saw one eating. What do you feed them? Mrs. Walter's Mom" //The food is ground up malva plant. Daniel from Sandburg.// ||
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 * Hi Eric and friends! Your cousin Valerie thinks that the caterpillars are cute! What a great and fascinating project. Eve, Jonas, Derick, and Valerie in Köping, Sweden.