Today we released our butterflies Squilliam, Dabmaster , Nemo , Gilavoughi and Lorenzo. We will really miss them. They are now in the wild.   {Olivia}{Róisín}{CathalJ}:}

Today we named our butterflies and they’re called:

Nemo, Dab-master, Lorenzo and Gilavoughi.

They are very nice. They are very big and have orange and grey wings.

They are all the same colour. We are going to let them free on Friday.

We will be sad when we release them.

By Eoghan, Daniel, Alessia and Lauren.

Today the caterpillars were eating food and flowers and eating some flowers and leaves from James’ garden. They were eating a lot of it! 

They are black and orange.

We are going to set them free tomorrow or Thursday!

Will, James and Shane

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We saw the caterpillars and they were hanging on their sides. One of them is starting to open up and we are excited. The cocoons are weird shapes and have dots on them. Cathal and James

Today the caterpillars had their final shed and their cocoons have fully formed. Hopefully over the week, they will transform into butterflies. The piece of paper they were on, was stapled onto the net. One of the caterpillars is at the bottom and the other four are on the side.

Conor M. and Conor F. :D

Today is the day the caterpillars begin their transformation when they change from slug things to lovely butterflies.                            

Today is the first day we saw the caterpillars in their cocoons. Soon they will be butterflies and we are all so excited!!

Will B), Róisín :P and Seán :) 

The caterpillars have grown way, way bigger. They have eaten most of the food. We cannot wait for them to start making their chrysalis so that we can see them in their full butterfly form. They are starting to hang from the top of the tub to practice making their chrysalis. They feel very vulnerable at this stage because in their natural habitat there would be predators and it would be easy for them to harm them.

                                    By Daniel and Tara. 

Hi,we have just seen our caterpillars. They are so much bigger than before.

Two of them have crawled to the top and there is loads of web around the tub.

They have eaten nearly all of their food and they are very spikey.

They are sort of black in colour and grey.

Thanks for listening! Anna, Alessia and Zak   :) 

We saw our class caterpillars today, they’re Huge and there is so much web in their tub.

Their tub is filled with this food that looks like sand paste. Soon they will cocoon and become butterflies and we can set them free!

Joshua, Scott, Aaron. 

Today we are doing an update on our class caterpillars.

They have gotten bigger and starting to shed some of their skin that they don’t need anymore.

They are starting to practice spinning their cocoons.

They have begun to grow white hairs all over their body.

At the moment they are still mainly black with spots of brown and white.

Their food is starting to get lower down the container because of them eating it all up : D

Possibly in a few weeks they will start to form their cocoons around themselves.

We can’t wait until they will be beautiful butterflies :D

When they are done their new formation they will crack out of their cocoon and then we will release them into the wild after a few days of living in a large net!

At the moment they are not moving much considering they are still young :]

Soon we will give each caterpillar names.

Right now the caterpillars are on the side of the container.

When they are ready to form their cocoon they will climb to the top of their container and form their cocoon:]

Lauren and Emma

We saw our caterpillars today. They must have grown over the weekend. They were HUGE compared to the last time.

They had made a web sort of thing above the food in the tub, and Ms. O’Donnellan said that it was practice for making the cocoons. They were very hairy. It might take around a week to start making the cocoons.

Eoghan and Des