Virginia Trivia
I’m doing research on the lovely state of Virginia and I discovered that it actually has a state insect. It amazes me that lawmakers actually take the time to declare a state insect…I can see them arguing over it;can’t you?
I know you are dying to know so I’ll tell you now that it’s the swallowtail butterfly. Now, you may say, who knew that butterflies were even insects. Well, they are.
It turns out that they really love parsley as well. I know this because we have a lot of parsley in our garden and several caterpillars on them. We looked on the internet and found out that our caterpillars are actually swallowtail larvae.
The kids are enjoying watching the caterpillars grow and we are hoping to watch them spin a chrysallis and emerge as butterflies eventually.
If you have children and they want to learn about butterflies, check out the children’s butterfly website. I’ve also seen(and we’ve personally done this before) that you can buy and watch them grow into butterflies even if you don’t have a backyard.
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