Tadpoles, Butterflies, Hermits Crabs, & Broken Cameras

After much nagging of the man at Petsupermarket, he finally had an epiphany and ordered enough tadpoles to get me off his back. So now all is right with the world. Since we have had so much rain here in the Queen City we had a little overflow in the pond. Apparently one of the tadpoles decided to take that opportunity to make a break for it. One of our neighbors' children rescued him and put him back in the pond. *If you are reading this, Iyana (sorry if I misspelled your name) thanks bunches.*

All the butterflies finally made their metamorphosis with much grace and beauty...except one. It was so sad. He had the hardest time getting out of his chrysalis. When he finally got out, he fell to the bottom of the cage. I just kept thinking that I should have put it on the side like the others. That way even though he fell, it wouldn't have been such a long fall. Anyway, his wings never formed properly and so he didn't meet a very pleasant end.

Since we are unable to get the fence repaired right now for a dog, the kids asked for hermit crabs. We bought 3. One for each child and one for us. I am so in love with these things. I think they are so cool. I want to buy a big aquarium so I can have a lot of them. We let them out and put them on the floor to crawl around for a while. One thing I didn't know in the beginning was they are excellent climbers. I can't wait to get a bigger aquarium so that they can have more room and be more active. YAY for crabs...of course I mean hermit crabs! LOL

Now for the bad news. My camera is not working properly. I can take pictures, but it won't load anything onto the computer. I am so sad. Maybe the Lord will make a way for me to get a new one... HINT! HINT!

Well, we moving on up!

This is a short movie of me trying to put the chrysalises in the butterfly habitat. I don't know if you all know this, but I am petrified of most bugs. This is also a documentation of how my husband likes to torment me. LOL

Worms and chrysalises and tadpole! Oh My!

Okay, here are a lot of very unclear bad pictures of our caterpillars. The main thing that I want you to see is that in these pictures one is attached to the top. This is what happened right before it forms a chrysalis. They will hang there for a while, and then their skin will split. They will be green and slimy at first and then it kind of hardens or something.



I hope this movie plays. You can't really see anything, but I thought it would be cool to watch the movement.



On the far right is the one that already has formed a chrysalis. The other two are just hanging there doing whatever it takes to do the same as the one on the right. It is really hard to take good pictures because they have a lot of webs that they have spun on the inside.


TADPOLES! Yay us!
We bought 3 because that was all they had. I will go and get more on Wednesday. I was supposed to let the water sit for 5 days, but I opted to use the water conditioner instead. They are in the pond now. I will take pics of them outside tomorrow if I get a chance.