Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Cabbage White Butterflies have Hatched!

We have one of our first sightings of the Cabbage White Butterfly.
Here is a picture of it in the first instar stage.



Monday, December 9, 2013

Cross Pollination and Parts of a Flower

Today we went over parts of a flower and pollinated our Wisconsin Fast Plants.

Here is an example image of the labeled parts.

Here are some images of today's class.



Sunday, December 8, 2013

Macro to Micro Update - December 9th Week

We have been immersed in growing Wisconsin Fast Plants, corn and bean seeds.
Our Wisconsin Fast Plants have just sprouted flowers and will be cross-pollinating them this week.
The corn and bean will be used to compare monocot and dicot plants.



We also just received our Cabbage White Butterfly Eggs and have placed these on the radish leaves.  We should see the larva emerge soon!  Here are the eggs under the digital microscope.