Natural Science – Spilosoma Congrua

Yesterday daddy found something special for the girls to investigate. It was a Spilosoma Congrua, more commonly known as the Agreeable Tiger Moth. She was beautiful! Fluffy and purest white, she flitted about our dining room for a little bit, settled on a curtain for us to watch her, and then happily settled inside a mason jar so that we could get a closer look at her. I gave the girls their magnifying glasses from their science discovery kits (Thank you, Oney!) and let them take a nice close look:

Moyra looks at The Agreeable Tiger Moth

The Agreeable Tiger Moth poses gracefully for Moyra

Moyra loved holding the jar by herself!

Moyra really enjoyed looking at the moth. We talked about it for quite awhile, and looked it up for identification online today. It was really nice to see that we could identify something like this ourselves. I was pleased to see that while Spilosoma Congrua does get into Colorado from time to time, its primarily found much farther East. You’ve come a long way, little beauty! Amelie isn’t a big bug fan, so she looked from a distance most of the time, and really only got close when daddy had the little tigress in his hands.  After looking at her for a good long while, and discussing the different parts of her beautiful body, Moyra and I put the jar on the porch to encourage her to fly away.

After that, well…you can’t just get out magnifying glasses to look at ONE thing, silly mommy! We need to look at lots of things! So we got out our visual science kits and examined bubble wrap, fabric, glass cabishons, woven ribbon, cotton balls, terra cotta pots and some cute little flower appliques.

Our Visual Science Assortment

Amelie of course, needed to examine mommy and the camera too.

Studying mommy's face with the magnifying glass

River did some of her own sensory discovery, in her own special way!

River's Sensory Exploration during our science lesson