Junior students have been involved in collecting seeds from the school swan plants. This involves putting bags over the seed pods of the swan plants, and waiting for them to dry. Once these have dried students empty the bags and place them on another seed pod. We are going to plant these seeds so we can increase our swan plant population in school.
We have also been trying to spot caterpillars on the swan plants. This year there doesn't appear to be as many, but we are finding lots of wasps. When we make a discovery we transport the caterpillar to our Butterfly Hospital in the Butterfly Meadow on the Senior Campus. Here the caterpillars are safe from wasps and have lots of swan plants to munch on before they turn into a chrysalis and then into a beautiful Monarch Butterfly.
Follow this link to see the process and learn how you can do this at home.
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