On Thursday our first monarch butterfly hatched out in Kowhai!

First there was an egg, then the caterpillar was eating, then it turned into a cocoon, then it hatched out and flew away.  Annabel

It was in a chrysalis and then it turned into a butterfly and we let it out. Olivia C

Most butterflies can eat pumpkin if they don't have any swan plant leaves left. Molly

We put the butterfly in Kowhai's pumpkin patch. Ben

Most butterflies are poisonous. If anything eats it, they will get really sick, spit it out and never eat one again. Holly

When the caterpillar hatched out of its egg, each day it grew bigger. It kept eating until it was big enough to turn into a chrysalis, about fourteen days. August

The caterpillars turn into chrysalises and when they are a butterfly, they come back to the same plant and lay their eggs on that. Tobin