Catching Caterpillars

I know, I know...you are waiting on the Disney / Florida pictures. I promise they are coming soon. Honestly, the pics from Disney are not that great. It is really hard to take pictures while on a ride ;)

On Sunday we were lucky enough to catch caterpillars! The kids got new bug boxes while we were in Florida and all of us were itching to use them for something other than ants. We got word that Jack's house had a gazillion caterpillars so armed with our boxes we headed over.

This is the only picture I have of the caterpillars. How gross are these? The little things grow in huge nests high up in the trees and then overtake the yard. So gross!



They were long and fuzzy.

Izzy immediately went straight for them and would either pick them up by hand or use a stick. She ended up settling for 12.





Drew took a while to warm up, but then just went straight for them with his chubby little fingers.







Look at this face. How cute is he? He is either off the wall crazy or oh so serious.

Drew came home with 5 caterpillars, but I am not sure how many were actually alive once they reached the box?

Finally after many exhausting minutes of caterpillar collecting it was time for a break.


I promise that I will try try try to get some FL pictures uploaded in the next day or two.