Caterpillar watch!

During the half term something very special has happened- our butterflies have hatched from their cocoons! All five of our butterflies have come out and spent the first day drying out their wings and practising opening and closing them.

With my daughter's help we collected some flowers from the garden and placed them in the butterfly garden with some sugar water for the butterflies to eat.

They are very beautiful painted lady butterflies. Over the next day the butterflies got stronger and where able to fly around the butterfly garden and climb up to the top of the net. It was now time to let the butterflies go into the wild where they would have lots of space to fly around and find food by themselves.

With Ellie's help I opened the butterfly garden and carefully took the butterflies out, some flew away straight away and others flew onto the plants in the garden.