September 16, 2015

https://drive.google.com/a/milfordschools.org/file/d/0B0dWW-mWItRCbEU3RUVsQ0l0cDQ/view?usp=sharing

Check out the above video. Lots of things going on in the garden!

This Happened Today!

Thanks to Mrs. Vander Veen for putting this together!

Monday pick up

   Today was pick up day. All of the habitats with two inhabitants were set up and ready to join their home ACE.

Check out all of the ACE classes participating (indicated in orange)...66% of all ACEs and one HS class. WOW!

Weekend set-up

   The larva arrived from Monarch Watch in their special delivery box complete with cooler bag late last Friday. (Thanks again, Milford Schools Foundation!) Ms. Rapp and I elevated the milkweed (yep! that gooey green stuff) feeder cups with popsicle sticks so that the teeny larva could breathe until they were moved to their new habitats.

   Then, followed the"great disinfection". Each habitat had to be disinfected chemically and air dried. Look at all of those cool habitats-constructed from Glad ware, screen, and a glue gun. Yes, those are sample cups that will be used to hold the milkweed! Gotta love a cheap and easy set up :)

   Look at how little the larva are...can you find them (2)?

 

Friday was a very busy day in the Garden!

male Monarch newly emerged
from chrysalis

students making observations
and documenting data

empty chrysalis

wild monarch larva

Tagged and ready
to head to Mexico!

Butterfly Enclosure 9-9-15

Butterfly Enclosure 9-4-15