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couple from being smushed. Even so, we were too late to save a couple. We think they are looking for a nice place to make their cocoons.
Painted Ladies: Grassy is eating. She is about 4½ cm long. She looks very fat and tight packed in her skin.
Inchworms: We got a replacement for Alice that looks exactly like her. Alice II is on the ceiling. She is about 1½ cm long.
May 1
Chester is about 4½ cm long and ½ cm wide without her hairs. Chester is lying in a straight line on the wall with her head towards the bottom of the jar.
Grassy: Grassy is in the silk, as we often see her. There is much less silk now then there once was. We think she has eaten it.
May 2
Painted Ladies: We've got a butterfly! It is so pretty when it opens its wings - even the backside is pretty. She (?) has dripped red stuff two times. She is clinging to the Popsicle stick. The underside of her wings are brown and white and black. She flapped her wings and walked up the stick. She is orange on the inside of her wings. The pupa case has a black hook on the bottom. The case is pretty light. There are reddish brown bumps on the top. You can sort of see the segments of the caterpillar on the pupa case. It is pale, tan and transparent. You can sort of see through it.
Tweedles: Tweedle Dee is 3 cm long and about 2 mm wide. Tweedle Dum is 2 cm long.
May 3
Yesterday we found a fatterpillar and two tent caterpillars, one of which turned into a pupa last night. Chester and Grassey both turned into pupas yesterday. Now there are three butterflies. One came out this morning and one yesterday at lunch. We freed five butterflies today.
May 9
Alice is a digging caterpillar. We made her a bigger house and put dirt in it. She dug right away. We guessed because she was doing what a cater
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