from their cocoons! We awoke this morning to a jar full of newly hatched little wasps. We watched as the little gnat-sized insects fought their way out of their cocoons. We are watching them learn to fly and crawl all over the jar. The uncomfortable caterpillar is moving erratically, I assume annoyed by [...]

We found a caterpillar today, and true to our homeschooling form, we captured the poor little creature, put him in a jar and brought him into the house for investigation and observation.
Tonight we brought our little captor to the computer and  tried to at least figure out what type of caterpillar we were looking at.  [...]