Last night I set up our black light to try to attract large moths.
I also tried a beer, banana and brown sugar mix that I spread on our trees to try to attract some moths too. I found a tulip tree moth and several little moths like the Isabella tiger moth and a bunch of different types of inch worm moths.
I hope I can try again this weekend and hopefully find a luna moth.
I found my first monarch eggs today. I found 24!
Looking forward to finding more very soon.
Last week, I started coaching Megan’s soccer team. I have eleven girls. It is supposed to be a kindergarten team and I have ages from 3 to 7!
We had our first game Monday. It went pretty well. I had one little girl who would come and sit at my feet until I told her what to do! I had 7 girls on the field at a time. The ending score was 0-1.
After the game, while we were walking back to the car, there were some geese with their goslings walking across the tracks in front of us. It was really cute!
The other day I found these egg cases. The first one I know is a praying mantis. The second one, I think, is also a praying mantis. They should hatch in about a month. Each egg case has around 200-500 praying mantises in them.
Last weekend we got to go and visit some really good friends in Ohio. On Saturday we went on hike. Casteel and I enjoyed posing on different rocks and having snow ball fights!
After a long winter, Thor desperately needed a bath. He went right in the tub and sat patiently while he was scrubbed up. Then he happily got out to be dried. This may be easier than washing him outside with the hose!
Yesterday I was playing with some of my alpaca pictures and adding alpaca/llama puns to them, this is my favorite.
Today is National learn about butterflies day!
Here are some fun monarch butterfly facts:
Monarchs typically ride air currents of 800-1200 feet, The highest recorded was 11,000 feet!
Monarchs fly at a rate of 10-12 MPH.
Monarchs travel an average of 25 miles a day.
The largest known monarch migration site in Mexico is 216.21721 square miles.
Monarchs can flap their wings 120 times a minute.
A group of monarchs is called a congregation.
A group of monarch caterpillars is called an army.
A newly hatched caterpillar gains about 2,700 times its original weight before reaching chrysalis stage.
A large caterpillar can eat an entire milkweed leaf in less then 4 minutes.
Today is lost penny day. Here is a short story of my lost penny:
Today I lost my penny, I keep it in my right shoe. I was walking down Main street when I felt something in my shoe, so I took off my shoe and shook it out. That night when I got home and took off my shoe I could not find my penny! I guess I lost it because it was a Monday.
“If we’re gonna fly, we fly like eagles
Arms out wide
If we’re gonna fear, we fear no evil
We will rise
By your power, we will go
By your spirit, we are bold
If we’re gonna stand, we stand as giants
If we’re gonna walk, we walk as lions”
-Lions by Skillet –