Random Pictures

These are some pictures from the past few days. The top one is me sitting on my bunkbed working on this blog. I sleep on the bottom bunk. A teacher from Kansas sleeps on the top bunk. Sleeping on the bed is comfortable. We are all so tired that we fall asleep really quickly. The next two pictures are little shelters for a caterpillar called a bagworm. They make the bag from their silk and little sticks. The girl bagworm lives her whole life in the bag and never leaves. The boy bagworm comes and finds her in the bag. It is the boy bagworm that turns into a moth. The last picture is one of bird eggs. A red bird called a Prothonotary Warbler laid them in this old post by a bridge. We saw her fly into the post and got to see her eggs after she flew out. Very cool!! Thank you for your comments and all the questions. I have tried to post your comments, but am having trouble making the blog do what I want it to do. I am going to try to answer some of the questions from Mr. Kropp's class. The first one is from Parfait. He asked if caterpillars change colors. Some can change colors when they eat different plants. Others change colors as they get older. Someone else asked if caterpillars lay eggs. Yes they do. Some other questions came from Ms. Nicholson's and Ms. Lewton's class.Sarah asked how long caterpillars live. Some caterpillars live for only a week while others can live for a year. Their life cycle depends on lots of things like temperature, precipitation (rain), and how much the caterpillar ate before it started its next stage. Mayly asked how caterpillars eat. They eat leaves with something called mandibles. Alexis asked how many legs a caterpillar has. They have six legs on their thorax. Makai asked how long it takes for a caterpillar to eat a whole leaf. It depends on the size of the caterpillar. I have seen some big caterpillars eating really fast and making big holes in the leaves. Some places here have lots of forest tent caterpillars hanging from the trees in nests. I have pictures on one of the blogs. There are so many caterpillars that they are eating all the leaves on many trees called tupelo trees. Thanks for all the questions. I only have two more days in the bunkhouse. Then we go back to New Orleans to work in the lab at Tulane University.