2. Beautiful Butterflies! Click on a picture to learn more about the person. Click on the home button to return back to this page. Use the arrows to move forward and backward in the presentation. Life Cycle Body Parts Caterpillar Facts Kinds of Butterflies

3. Life Cycle The EggThe Larva The Pupa The Adult

4. The egg is white. The egg is small and it is soft. Eggs are laid on a plant it likes to eat. - Isaiah The Egg

5. The larva’s head is small. The larva eats the yolk inside the egg. The caterpillars have true legs and use mandibles to eat. They have sucker feet. -Jahiem The Larva

6. The pupa is surrounded by the chrysalis. A pupa grows into a butterfly. A pupa goes through a change called metamorphosis. -Chris The Pupa

7. The butterfly pushes through the chrysalis. At first its wings are wet and weak. The butterfly pumps liquid into the wings. The butterfly wings grow bigger and stronger. -Janyla The Adult

8. Butterfly Body Parts Eyes Legs & Feet Body & Wings

9. Compound eyes see color and patterns on flowers. Compound eyes are made up of many lenses. -Zolynn Eyes

10. Butterflies have six legs. Butterflies have legs to walk. Their feet are sticky. -Merrisses Legs and Feet

11. The thorax supports the butterfly’s wings. The antennae are for balancing and smelling. The abdomen holds organs that help a butterfly digest its food. -Cal Body and Wings

12. Caterpillar Facts

13. When a caterpillar comes out of its shell it eats a leaf right away. Caterpillars are good for birds to eat. A caterpillar’s old skin comes off about six times. Then it turns into a cocoon. -Winnie Caterpillar Facts

14. A caterpillar eats a lot of leaves to grow big. A caterpillar can confuse their predators like a bird or other animal. The caterpillar molts its skin. -Taylor Caterpillar Facts

15. The old skin comes off the caterpillar and it grows new skin. A caterpillar can shed six times before it’s a cocoon. It will be a butterfly when it is an adult. -Cinnamon Caterpillar Facts

16. A caterpillar hatches in a week or so. Caterpillars are good food for a bird. Caterpillars spin silk from their mouth. -Jordan Caterpillar Facts

17. Kinds of Butterflies Morphos Black-Veined White Buckeye Schmetterling

18. The morphos live in the rainforest. The word for butterfly in Poland is motyl. -Keegan Morphos Butterfly

19. The spots on the buckeye look like deer eyes. -Amelia Buckeye

20. The black-veined whites are called cho-cho in Japan. This cho-cho’s wings look like someone made an outline with a black pen and then colored it in with white paint. -Daniel Black-Veined White

21. You can tell the schmetterlings apart because their color is different. Each motyl has a unique wing design. - Matthew & Zach Schmetterlings

22. Created by: Mrs. Pfaff’s 2nd Grade class with Mrs. Dostal Lincoln School 2010