Emily found this Giant Leopard Moth in our yard.

When she brought it inside, it laid lots of blue-ish green eggs.

Here they are hatching.

See all the baby caterpillars.

Here they are about three weeks later in our caterpillar habitat. They love to eat dandelion leaves.

getting big - I had to let about 100 go but still have around 100.

a little toad Emily caught - she named him Tiny

toads we found in our koi pond

toad eggs in our koi pond

Emily brought a string of eggs inside and they hatched in a pickle jar

we have about 60 tadpoles in the jar now and they are growing bigger everyday

here is one frog that we raised from an egg - it's so small!!

we can't believe how small these toads are

we now have 15 of these teeny tiny toads

we found this treefrog on our sliding glass door

we found these two separately by the koi pond - they decided it was time to lay eggs

here are the eggs they laid that night

frog/toad lifecycle

our toad, frog and tree frog set up

We saw a frog in our pond this time and...

she laid eggs

Our first little tree frog.

His new habitat that we set up.

lifecycle

Emily received a butterfly kit for her birthday - this is one of the caterpillars in the kit

caterpillars hanging from the lid of the jar

watching the caterpillar change into a chrysalis - COOL!

The caterpillar hangs upside down then it begins to bust out of its skin through its back. The skin splits up the back and out wiggles the chrysalis!

they hatched 8 days later

a butterfly enjoying watermelon

our butterflies laid eggs!

with flash

without flash

searching byhe koi pond

Cope's Gray Treefrog

Cope's Gray Treefrog

slug

millipedes

American Toad

Wolf Spider

Giant Leopard Moth (Eyed Tiger Moth)

flower presentation

scanned flowers from our yard

Emily labeled the parts of this flower

a pollinated flower

Virginia's state tree and flower - the dogwood

the group digs in

rodent skull

Ethan finding bones

Emily finding bones

the findings

more findings

our incubator

duck egg with X side up

candling the egg to see inside - nothing but yolk - it's a dead egg

We cracked it open to investigate

This is a praying mantis egg sac.

Here is another with a few babies on it.

We put 3 egg sacs in a jar and waited for them to hatch. Eachsac has more than 100 babies in it.

many, many baby praying mantis

letting them go - they'll begin to eat each other if not released immediately

cute little guys

so tiny

freedom

freedom