fun program<\/a> is releasing the butterflies outside. Kids and their families look forward to this every year.<\/p>\nWhat are some of the summer traditions families enjoyed at your Library?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the traditions at our library each summer is to watch as larvae mature into caterpillars, enter a chrysalis stage, and finally emerge as Painted Lady butterflies. Kids and their families (and staff!) enjoy observing the butterflies for a week or so before getting together for a butterfly-themed storytime and releasing the butterflies outside. We purchase Painted Lady larvae from Insect Lore, a “butterfly by mail” company whose tag line -“Get ’em, Grow ’em, Let ’em Go” – is self-explanatory. During their time at the library, the Painted Ladies undergo a\u00a0 metamorphosis from larvae to butterfly, in a room specially designated for the month as \u201cThe Flutterin\u2019 Inn.\u201d\u009d The room is decorated with child-created butterfly-related art, and a wide assortment of books about butterflies are available for checkout. The insects live in a tent which allows kids and their grown-ups to get an up-close look at them. It is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[144,22,38,136],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-mary-r-voors","category-childrens-literature","category-programming-ideas","category-storytime-2","tag-butterflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>We purchase Painted Lady larvae from Insect Lore<\/a>, a “butterfly by mail” company whose tag line -“Get ’em, Grow ’em, Let ’em Go” – is self-explanatory. During their time at the library, the Painted Ladies undergo a\u00a0 metamorphosis from larvae to butterfly, in a room specially designated for the month as \u201cThe Flutterin\u2019 Inn.\u201d\u009d The room is decorated with child-created butterfly-related art, and a wide assortment of books about butterflies are available for checkout. The insects live in a tent which allows kids and their grown-ups to get an up-close look at them. It is fascinating to watch the discussions and it is an incredibly easy vocabulary building opportunity.<\/p>\n![\"book](\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Crunching-Munching.jpg\")
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