We're growing butterflies...5 caterpillars arrived by post last Wednesday (I bought a 'grow your own butterflies kit from the science museum and had to send off for them!), about 1.5cm in length each. 7 days later, they had quadrupled in size, and 3 days after that we have our first chrysalis. Technically we now have one and a half - a second caterpillar has almost finished encasing itself as well - it's been a fascinating process. Once all 5 are safely cocooned away I get to then open the jar they're in and transfer them to our netting cage, where hopefully, fingers crossed, we'll be able to maintain the right temperature and light and humidity so that 5 pretty butterflies will hatch out in a few week's time. I thought we were growing the same sort of butterfly, but the caterpillars were different so I'm not sure. I guess we'll find out what happens in this living version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar in a few weeks, stay tuned!