Our Bob in his cocoon on February 11, 2010
what Bob looked like last week...
"Wouldn’t it be fun to catch a Woolly Bear caterpillar and keep it alive in a jar, feed it everyday as it fattens and watch it? The caterpillar will hibernate through the cold part of winter. In the spring you can feed it again, watch it spin a cocoon of silk and hair. One week later it will “hatch” and the moth will emerge. Then you can set your Tiger moth free outside.Read more at Suite101: Woolly Bear Hunting: Caterpillar of Isabella Tiger Moth "
Our Wooly Bear Story: On January 21, 2010, it was a typical Western Kentucky day in that the weather had shifted from winter to what felt like spring. It was rainy, warm, balmy even. On this day, I found "Bob", our class room caterpillar. I am 99% sure that Bob was a Wooly Bear Caterpillar which predicts a hard winter, which it is...
Bob was found in the spring of our hard winter here...quite odd, indeed, no? But I think it is a gift of love from nature for our classroom.
And 21 days later, Bob cocooned!
We think Bob will turn into a Tiger Moth...But we are not quite sure. We will see in a???.....(still waiting March 11, 2010)
