Caterpillars Up Close

Here's our current school newsletter.

 At lunchtime we saw three caterpillars on the stalks of the swan plant. We were going to relocate them to a healthier plant, but they were too hard to pick up. We will try it again when they are on a leaf, so we can pick the leaf off and then wait for them to crawl onto a leaf on the new plant.

The caterpillars were moving their heads a bit. (Well, we think they were their heads - it could have been their tails.) We need to work out which end is which.

I wonder if the aphids worry about the caterpillars?

Can you tell the anterior (front) from the posterior (rear)?

The head must be the end that is munching on the leaf. We think there are longer antennae at the head than at the tail.  At the posterior,  the feet are like suckers holding onto the stalk; at the anterior,  they are just like little fingers - not suckers.

By Alisha and Ramandeep

Our rugby picks for this week (Round 6) are:

Highlanders win 1 - 12 against Reds

Hurricanes win 13+ against Kings

Chiefs win 1 - 12 against Blues 

Brumbies win 1 - 12 against Bulls 

Cheetahs win 1 - 12 against Rebels

Crusaders win 1 - 12 against Stormers
Waratahs 1 - 12 against Force

Our current results are:

• Season Score:  132

  Round Score:  31

• Current Rank:  33,796 Out of 75,605