Life Cycle of a Butterfly Jeopardy
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I am the first stage in a caterpillar’s life cycle.
What is the egg?
I am an example of a place where the female painted lady butterfly chooses to lay her eggs.
What is a Malva plant?
I am the part of the egg which nourishes the larva while it is developing.
What is the yolk?
This is the substance that attaches the egg to plant leaves.
What is glue?
I am the part of the larva’s body which is used to break the egg open.
What are the jaws?
This is the second stage of the butterfly’s life cycle?
What is the caterpillar?
This is term used to describe the process in which the caterpillar sheds it’s skin.
What is molting?
Caterpillars spin silk to support themselves for their transformation into a chrysalis. This is the name for the part of the body that spins the silk.
What is a spinneret?
This is an important feature of the caterpillar’s body which protects it from predators who might want to eat it.
What are bristles?
This is the name given to the caterpillar’s rigid external skeleton.
What is the exoskeleton?
This is the name given to the third stage of the butterfly’s life cycle?
What is a chrysalis?
This is the button from which the chrysalis hangs from a leaf or a twig.
What is the silk button?
This is a more scientific name given to the butterfly chrysalis.
What is the butterfly pupa?
This is the nectar-sucking organ which becomes visible during the chrysalis stage.
What is a proboscis?
This is the term given to the red liquid that comes from the tail end of the butterfly as it emerges from it’s chrysalis.
What is meconium?
This is a colorful, flying insect which emerges from a chrysalis.
What is a butterfly?
This is the sweet liquid which butterflies sip from deep inside flowers.
What is nectar?
A part on the butterfly’s head used for both touch and smell.
What is a butterfly’s antennae?
The butterfly has four of these which it uses to fly.
What are the butterfly’s wings?
This section of the butterfly’s body contains muscles which make the wings and legs move.
What is the butterfly’s thorax?
I emerge from a cacoon.
What is a moth?
I fly and am most active at night.
What is a moth?
My antennae are feathery.
What is a moth?
While I am at rest, I perch my wings up and together.
What is a butterfly?
My body appears thin and smooth.
What is a butterfly?
This is the process which process which living things go through as they grow into mature adults.
What is metamorphosis?