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- The
Topic:
- Butterflies
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- Easier - Butterflies
are thin insects with four large, often bright colored
wings.
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- Harder - Butterflies
and moths comprise the insect group called
Lepidoptera. However, butterflies are different from
moths.
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- There are over 15,000 different species (kinds) of
butterflies. Rain forests have the most kinds of
butterflies; but butterflies live in woodlands,
fields, prairies. Some even live on cold mountaintops,
while many others live in hot deserts. Butterflies
live almost everywhere in the world.
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- The
Butterfly Farm S.A.
- http://www.butterflyfarm.co.cr/
- This site provides information on butterfly
bodies, how they grow, their defense mechanisms, and
the difference between a moth and a butterfly. Don't
miss the Student's
Guide to Butterflies section.
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- Monica
the Monarch
- http://www2.cybernex.net/~dbenz/monarch.htm
- Learn how this 6th grader learned to raise monarch
butterflies, and how you can too.
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- Monarchs
and Migration
- http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/top.html
- Here at this site from the Science Museum of
Minnesota, you will find pictures, links, and
information on investigating butterflies and
migration, and more.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Project Monarch Butterfly http://fredstrom.lps.org/monarch/monarch.html
- 3) Monarch Watch (University of Kansas) http://ron.nhm.ukans.edu/~monarch/index.html
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- Children's
Butterfly Site
- http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/butterfly/Butterfly.html
- This website provides the answers to many common
questions about butterflies and moths; it even
includes a coloring page of the life cycle of the
Monarch butterfly.
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- Website for Kids by Kids
- Butterflies,
On the Wings of Freedom
- http://library.advanced.org/27968/general_intro.shtml
- This site offers basic information about a
butterfly's life, its nourishment and
predators.
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- A Half-dozen More
- Butterfiies
- http://photo.net/photo/butterflies/
- Here is a small but beautiful butterfly photo
site.
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- Butterflies
- http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/butfly.html
- This is a great links-site that connects you to
many butterfly resources.
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- Butterflies
of North America
- http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
- Similar Website:
- 2) North American Lepidoptera Collection
(Furman University)
- http://www.furman.edu/~snyder/butterfly
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- Butterfly
Zone
- http://www.butterflies.com/
- This site concentrates on the butterfly and
gardening connection.
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- The
Butterfly Website
- http://butterflywebsite.com/
- Here you can look at a butterfly photo gallery
and find lots of information on butterfly
gardening, farming, ecology and education.
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- North
American Lepidoptera Collection (Furman
University)
- http://www.furman.edu/~snyder/butterfly/
- This large collection contains photos of moths
and butterflies.
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- Websites for Teachers
- Flutter
by...Butterfly (Grades k-5)
- http://etc.sccoe.k12.ca.us/i98/ii98Units/Science/FLUTRBYB/text/home.html#Anchor-Flutter-47043
- This website was designed for for a
multidisciplinary approach to exploring a life
science.
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- Butterfly
Secrets
- http://www.wvaworldschool.org/html/lesson/lplans/science/lturner/bsecrets.htm
- Students will learn the secrets contained in
(and that unfold from) a caterpillarís
cocoon or chrysalis. Contains a link to online
version of "The Very Hungry
Caterpillar."
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- Monarch
Butterfly Thematic Resource Unit
- http://www.midgefrazel.net/monarchtheme.html
- This thematic unit focuses on the topic of
monarch butterflies.
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insects
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lepidoptera
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antennae
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caterpillar
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protective coloration
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wingspan
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egg
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proboscis
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migration
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moth
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pattern
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veins
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swallowtail
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wing
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exoskeleton
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pupa
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abdomen
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hindwing
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specie
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nectar
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thorax
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abdomen
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marking
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larva
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collecting
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hibernation
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chrysalis
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eyespots
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monarch
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painted lady
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson,
1/99
- Updated by Nancy Smith,
6/01
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