Room 16

Room 16
February

Monday 17 March 2014

The gum emperor caterpillars update

Today when we arrived at school we noticed a big change in our caterpillars.
One had built a caccoon.



The other one had changed colour and got smaller.

It crawled around the gum leaves all morning...



And in the afternoon started spinning its caccoon.



Now we wait till they hatch out.
The only problem is they can stay inside their caccoon until it is the right conditions to hatch. They can stay inside for up to 5 years!

Does anyone know what the right conditions to hatch are?

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