Showing posts with label caterpillars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caterpillars. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Okay....so I finally killed the beast that was guarding Blogger.......

Yeaaa. That is my excu...*cough* I mean reason. There was this horrendous beast with claws and fangs that tried to attack me every single time I tried to log on to Blogger. Its true. I mean the blood dripping from its razor sharp teeth deter me a little.

BUT! I finally slayed it. So no fear, Techno Ninja saved the day!

(So so so so sorry I haven't posted in awhile!)

Alright so there is plenty to talk about. One being I am sorta kinda ish dating this guy. I totally wasn't going to date him. But I am (I think) lol. Let me explain a little more so that confuzzled look you have may leave your face :)

So I met this guy on myspace. When I say met I mean I added him as a friend after I checked over his profile for the usual creeper redflags*. His name is ....we will call him T-cat. Everyone calls him that (no they don't).

SO I added him. Then like maybe two weeks later he texted me. (mind you we had has no other moment of talking to each other and now three weeks later I am so confuzzled ....

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Wait why the crap am I telling you about my boring sorta kinda maybe dating life????? I know why you are here and what I need to give you--BUTTERFLIES!! I promised you updates like a freaking month ago and I have just kept putting them off. NO MORE tho. Here they are with wonderful commentary from biologist wannabe me (I will get back to him another day if I am still sorta ish with him lol):
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So as you know we started out with this:
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What a cutie :3 This little bugger and its sibling nommed nommed and nommed some more on milkweed leaves for about a week and a half.
And this is what I found:
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The one getting darker is the one that was already in its crystalist when I got the caterpillars. Its gets darker when they change from a piller to a butter.
And it slowly got darker as the days went by and when I say darker, I mean more clear:
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By this point I sit my bum down with the camera and wait. Annnyyy hour its going come out. Well of course I get all distracted and I miss the darn thing popping out, but I got the second after:
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At this point it has to let its wings fill with blood and drop to its full length
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Here is the moment it dropped its back wings. I was waiting for it to start pumping them so I could see the gender:
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See if there is two little dots on the inside of the wings then its a male:
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We have a boy!!
Then I released it when it started fluttering around
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The other two my mom let go before I got pictures or saw the genders. Since they were changed so late, hopefully they will be part of the group of monarchs that migrate to mexico. ^.^

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I Has A Happy

Hey guys! So a little update then some pics on a little pet project I have going on ^.^

Not too much going on. Just school and friends.

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OH WAIT!
....My Birthday! *sarcastically hits forehead* thats what I was going to tell you!
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=D Yup! So as of yesterday I am 18. Yesterday was sorta a bummer tho. I had classes all day. I did get birthday spankings from my mom -.- geeze when is she going to grow up? ...I kid I kid, I love my mom to no end lol.
But yea. Sorta boring 9 hours of class. Then I was too tired to go out that night. I literally went to bed a few hours after getting home...and slept to 11:30 this morning!

..thats 11 hours!!! I never sleep that long! : x I blame it on my bed. It was too damn comfy this morning!...

Anyway, so I was planning on going to a friends house but he wouldn't respond to my texts. I thought he was sleeping. So for like 3 hours I sent him like 10 messages saying "Wake up!" or "*poke* lazy ass...get up!"....well after that 3 hours he texted me back saying he was in court :x oh my bad. geeze did i feel like an ass. Sometimes I wonder when my social skills are supposed to kick in. But I said I was sorry and he still invited me over *heart* and thats where I spent the evening. Loads of fun.

ok so this "pet project" I have going on. One of my moms coworkers stopped by and dropped this off:
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(yes that pic was there for inspiration for them^.-)

Yup! I got three monarch caterpillars! Well really I got two caterpillars and one already in its little chystalist thingy.

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There's one

And

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There is the other.

The third was already hanging at the time of first picture taking.
But now look!!!
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They are all hanging in their little chytsalists! They should become butterflies now *hearts*
Hopefully by next week the first one will pop out. I will def. get pictures...so keep checking back for an update!