SCHREIBER – The Schreiber Public Library’s Little Sprouts Community Garden has some new residents as five monarch butterfly caterpillars are now calling the garden home.
“They’re very pretty and they have four stages of life,” said David Costa from the Schreiber Public Library.
“They start as an egg, then they’ll hatch out of the egg into a larva and then a caterpillar and then eventually, once the time is right, they go into a pupa stage, which is also called the chrysalis, and then they will come out of their pupae as an adult monarch butterfly.”
Costa says that community children are thrilled that they’ll be able to see the process of monarch butterfly metamorphosis.
“They’re extremely excited, like, all the kids love it, they even want to go over to the community garden, they want to look at the butterflies as they’re lying around or on the leaves,” he said.
“Kids should learn how these insects grow and have them familiar with what kind of insects we have here in our back yard.”
The library is holding a "Name the Caterpillar" contest and invites the community to use its imagination and think of great names for the caterpillars.
Submit your name through Facebook or by email at library@schreiber.ca.