Here's the Thursday night update. We had 1 chrysalis this morning, plus the other one still upside down. Another was on the lid, and we could see he had attached himself to the top. The other was still wandering and eating. The kids were all so excited to see the new chrysalis! We were checking on them constantly, yet somehow, when we weren't looking, we missed number 3 turning upside down! I was reading to a group of kids right next to it, and we finished a book and looked up and he was upside down. As we got ready to go home, some kids were over there checking on them, then about 15 minutes after school, I went to get the snack dishes, and we had a second chrysalis! I think in my mind it's a slower process and I've been dying to watch it happen, or at least catch it partway through, and we always miss it. So we have 2 so far!
The black globs are their skin below each chrysalis.
As for the ladybugs, they were still active except for 2. At bedtime tonight we checked again and I think we have our first pupa. He seems to have some kind of case around him. It's way hard getting good pics of the ladybugs, especially with him being on the side of the plastic.
The blurry one on the side is the pupa...and the guy on the bottom in the light brown area seems to be curled up to make a pupa too.
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