Painted Lady Butterfly Photos!

Nature StudyScience
Written By Kim Mills

Last Wednesday afternoon our chrysalis started to hatch! It was so much fun watching the butterflies come out over the next few days. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the hatching on film.  It's very hard to get good butterfly photos in the house!

A painted lady butterfly hatching in a bug container.

Painted Lady Butterfly Hatching

Here is one drying its wings, newly hatched.

Painted Lady Butterfly drying its wings.

Painted Lady Butterfly drying it’s wings.

Oh so pretty!!

Painted Lady Butterfly on a child's lap.

Raising Some Painted Lady Butterflies

When we took the first hatching group out to release one of them landed on dd(3yr) dress. She was so happy! I bet that butterfly thought she was a flower with the bright flowers all over her dress!

A butterfly on pink Phlox flowers.

Painted Lady Butterfly On Phlox

They also loved my phlox!

A Painted Lady Butterfly in a kids bug container.

Painted Lady Butterfly With Sugar Water

Ok, last one. We had so much fun with this we'll definitely do it again!

Kim Mills

Hi! I’m Kim, a homeschool mom of 6 who believes that learning should be fun for kids and moms! My goal is to help you make learning engaging and enjoyable with hands-on learning and easy to do lessons that actually get done.

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