Alex has been doing lots of activities with living things at home. She’s got some tadpoles from her pond in her garden – which have just started to develop their legs, some caterpillars – which have just begun to pupate (form a chrysalis) and some stick insect eggs – which should hatch in the next few weeks.
The caterpillars are of a species of butterfly called the Painted Lady – which, when fully grown, should look like this:
An interesting fact about Painted Lady butterflies is that they migrate over the winter by flying all the way to North Africa and back – a journey which can be about 2,500 miles long!
Here’s a short video on it: