Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Talk about your experience of raising insects at home.

※ caterpillar=larva(larvae) -> pupa(cocoon) -> moth  /  애벌레=유충 -> 번데기(고치) -> 나방

Last autumn, my father caught two caterpillars from a tree in front of my home. He put them in a specimen case for his grandson. I had my doubts about raising them properly at home. Buy my son was so interested in nature that we decided to give it a go and raise the moth larvae.

The green caterpillars fed on tree leaves and grew bigger and bigger. Observing them with my sone was unexpectedly fun. In the past bugs gave me the creeps. But after seeing them so often, they even looked a little cute.

The caterpillars later turned brown, and burrowed underground where they made their cocoons. One morning about a month later, we found two pretty moths sitting outsid the dirt. My son was beside himself, seeing the moths we had raised ourselves. We carefully let the moths go. Seeing them fly away, I had a lump in my throat.

Is that a insect you're raising over there?

Yes. Our daughter is raising a caterpillars for educational purposes.

Really?

That's right. The larva becomes pupa. Later, it emerges as a moth.

So you're keeping taps on the entire process.

Yes. Our daughter really gets a kick out of it. She seems to get a lot out of it.