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Knox County Classrooms Participate in NASA Experiment Involving Caterpillars
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) -- Students in two Knox County classrooms are helping NASA researchers by keeping a close eye on some Monarch caterpillars.

The caterpillars arrived in Knox County earlier this month.

They're from the University of Kansas' Monarch Watch and were raised to live on an artificial diet that will keep them alive in space.

Meanwhile, NASA astronauts are tracking how the Knox County caterpillars' siblings are growing in zero gravity. The Knox County caterpillars are acting as a control group in the astronaut's experiment.

Gale School fourth-grade teacher Roxanne Green says her students have been studying caterpillars and butterflies all fall, but now they just can't get enough.

On the Net: www.twitter.com/butterflyspace and www.monarchwatch.org/space

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