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Last year we raised butterflies, got them to lay eggs, released the adult butterflies, but the day after the second batch of eggs hatched, ants (which were a problem in my old classroom) ate the newly hatched larvae. Thankfully, no ants in my classroom this year.

My question is about releasing brassica butterflies in CA. I know it was fine to release the painted ladies that we raised last year, but this year I wanted to raise two kinds to give students an opportunity to compare and contrast.

I've searched the internet and know that brassica butterflies are in the wild in CA, but I'm not sure whether it's legal to release them...and I DON'T want to keep them enclosed their whole life!
BruinGirl We received our butterflies this past week! We got Painted Lady Butterfly eggs and White Butterfly eggs! The kids are very excited to see the metamorphosis, and love all the activities that go along with it.

I took a Painted Lady egg and a White Butterfly egg and placed them on a slide! It's awesome for the kids to be able to go to the Sci...See More
Nov 8, 2008
Annie On 11/08/08, BruinGirl wrote: > We received painted lady butterflies as well. How exciting for the kids and my student teacher. We did many activities around the butterflies. We have an Elmo and one of the coccoons was slow-so we put it under the elmo and it was way too cool for the kids to see. I will order again next year.

We received...See More
Jun 4, 2009


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