Complete life cycle of a butterfly

About 6 weeks ago, we bought five caterpillars from internet. They came with a jar and  looked tiny. They  moved around in the jar and became bigger and bigger.  After a long cocoon stage (about 12 days), they all turned into beautiful butterflies. We fed them with sugar water and made them a flower bed on the bottom of the container. We wanted to keep those butterflies but their lives only last for 2-3 weeks so we released them this week at our backyard.Our children were very excited to observe the life cycle of real butterflies

Tiny Caterpillars

Bigger Caterpillars

Cocoon Stage

Butterflies

Release butterflies

Released butterflies