On Friday, we went to Oconaluftee Indian Village which is part of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The village is a living museum built as a replica of a Cherokee village from the 1760s. We learned a lot about Cherokee culture and history and how life changed with the arrival of European settlers. Parents, your kids can tell you about the pictures below…
We candled our eggs today. We all crammed into the hallway where it was dark and we candled each of our eggs to see how they are developing. We have six fertile developing eggs! We saw some of the embryos moving inside the eggs! You can see a video of a candled egg on the Parent Supervision page. See the pictures of our eggs below…
This is an infertile egg, like the kind you buy at the grocery store. It is pretty clear inside because there is not a growing embryo.
This is a fertile egg at Day 7 of incubation. You can see the black spot in the middle, which is the embryo. You can see the blood vessels extending around the embryo.
This is a fertilized egg at Day 9 of incubation. You can see the dark silhouette of the embryo is much bigger. You can also see the blood vessels.
This is the same egg as above (Day 9) from a different angle.
Last Friday we did our final butterfly observation and we released all of our Painted Lady Butterflies. See our photos and videos below…
See a butterfly using its proboscis to eat by clicking here: Butterfly Eating
See our butterfly release by clicking here: Butterfly Release
Our hen eggs arrived on May 1. We will be incubating them and in 21 days they will hatch.
Yesterday our first butterflies started to emerge and today most of them are out! We plan to release them tomorrow.
We went to the WNC Nature Center to take a class on “Bugs to Butterflies” and we visited all of our favorite native Western North Carolina animals.
In the last two weeks our caterpillars have grown A LOT and we have had one mealworm move into the pupa stage and then become an adult beetle. These photos and the following posts are our updates from the week of April 23.
Hi my name is Ty.Hi my name is Sammy.We finished our water presentations.It was hard work.
Today we cheered on Evergreen on their 5K. They were trying to rais $5000. They are going to give the money to a program called Water for South Sudan.
We went to the Nature Center. We got to see lots of animals. We had a lot of FUN !!
