monarch butterfly with comments from students in 3a
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Monarch Butterfly
With comments from students in 3A
One of the chrysalises
has gold on it. – Laressa
I can see a wing in a pupa. – Rediate
I saw that there are seven pupas and two larvae. First there will be an egg. Then there will be a larva.
Then there will be a pupa. Then there will be an adult. The pupas are green and (the) larva is yellow
and black. – Omar
I observe that four of the larvae have
turned into chrysalises. They
have really changed. The
milkweed plant has changed a lot, too, because most of
the leaves are gone. – Sammy
I hope one is going to grow into a butterfly because I like butterflies a
lot. – Xchel
I just remembered cocoons were for
moths. Our caterpillars are
(now) chrysalises. – Sol
I saw a caterpillar’s chrysalis and I saw
a wing inside. – Anna
There are twelve living things in total. There are eight larvae and
four pupas. I think the last time we miscounted. – Josephine
The chrysalises are green. Caterpillars walk like
rippling water. They are very squishy. – Natalie
The legs are simple. It (the
caterpillar) moves its head. I saw it
eat. It was fantastic. – Alex C.
They (the caterpillars) seem to use their prolegs to stick upside down and their true legs to move. – August
One (caterpillar) is close to the water. Watch out!! – Sam
The caterpillar is a pupa. He or she will turn into a
chrysalis. – Sarah
There are four pupas and five
larvae. The larvae are eating less and many are starting
to curl up in a spiral shape. – Elena
I measured one of the last caterpillars standing and I found
out that it is six centimeters long. Right now five are pupas. I noticed that when caterpillars are about to turn into pupas they start to slow
down and they get darker colors. –Sol
I observed that the first time I saw the caterpillars they barely moved, but
now they’re moving a lot. The larvae grew three quarters as big as my
thumb. – Jack
I observed that one is turning into a pupa. I
know that because it has stuck (itself) to
a branch. – Taylor
I noticed that the Monarch larvae are twice as big (as they were before). I discovered that there is a lot more
frass than last time! – Roberto
There are five pupas and four caterpillars. There is one that we didn’t count
because it is black and it isn’t moving. I noticed that the pupas are turning
goldish and one is seethroughish. – Eva
There is a larva that is dead. It is black and
losing its natural colors. – Karina
I know that maybe half of the Monarch
caterpillars will live long. But I’m still
figuring it out. – Hector
Monarch pupas are here and one is dead. Yuck! The dead one is black.
The rest are fine. – Luke
All of the chrysalises, including the “J” are
hanging from a leaf except for the one chrysalis
hanging from the container. – Natalia
The pupa has a pattern that shows if it is a male or a female. A line in the
middle shows the difference. – Alexander W.