Date: 09/24/1997

Number: 1

We are approaching an important day for our study of the monarch butterfly. Over the weekend we had our first butterfly leave its pupa in our classroom. We had watched HIM (we checked!) since the day I found him in the ditch along the road. Daily trips to the country for milkweed kept him growing while others were brought in by helpful students and still others hatched from eggs unknowingly brought in on the milkweed! We set up the video camera after an early Sunday morning call from a concerned custodian reporting a pupa which had turned black. Around 1:30 pm he arrived, unsteady and shriveled. We quickly had to construct a classroom aviary with materials donated by local businesses. With the videotape of his arrival safely stowed away we pointed the camera at a larva which had spent all day Friday roaming around the terrarium and who had attached himself to a mulberry leaf sometime Saturday. At 11:30 p.m. he performed his miracle and is waiting to arrive this weekend. The vi

York, NE

Latitude: 40.8 Longitude: -97.5

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