Raising A Butterfly

We have awesome neighbors at our new house!!! One of them is our next door neighbor who has a passion for growing milkweed to raise butterflies. She gave us some milkweed and a baby caterpillar and we watched him eat a ton of milkweed and grow fat in a very short time. We watched him spin his chrysalis (amazing!), missing him coming out of it, but did get to watch him learn to fly. Below are pictures of the morning we released him.