Question about cocoons at my lads' school
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:22 am
As part of a nature project in my boys class, they have had delivered in the post, some caterpillars.
They come with their own tub of food and they stay in the tub until they turn into cocoons.
They are supposed to cling to the specially designed tub lid while in their cocoon form.
Now only one of them is still actually clinging to the roof of this tub, all the others having fallen to the bottom, where they are just lying there.
My question is: Will the cocoons lying on the floor be able to turn into butterflies ?
Don't they have to be hanging to be able to get out properly and complete their transformation ?
Once I get an answer, I can let my lads teacher know what you think, cos she was asking about it.
Thanks in advance.
They come with their own tub of food and they stay in the tub until they turn into cocoons.
They are supposed to cling to the specially designed tub lid while in their cocoon form.
Now only one of them is still actually clinging to the roof of this tub, all the others having fallen to the bottom, where they are just lying there.
My question is: Will the cocoons lying on the floor be able to turn into butterflies ?
Don't they have to be hanging to be able to get out properly and complete their transformation ?
Once I get an answer, I can let my lads teacher know what you think, cos she was asking about it.
Thanks in advance.