On the Drama of Butterflies

On the recommendation of a friend, Masha purchased an Insect Lore Butterfly Growing Kit for the kids. One voucher later, a cup arrived in the mail containing five Painted Lady caterpillars and a disk of what looked like brown sugar that was to be their food source for the next week. Our first pets! The kids were suitably interested, but all of our fascination grew as they quadrupled in size over a mere three or four days; turns out The…