1 / 7

Assignment 2

Assignment 2. Insect Presentation Sangar G Sukumaran EDLT 520. Butterfly. Parts. Fore Wing. Cell. Head. Abdomen. Spiracle. Life Cycle. Eggs. Larva. Pupa. Full Butterfly. Adult. Characteristics.

lana-raymond
Download Presentation

Assignment 2

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Assignment 2 Insect Presentation Sangar G Sukumaran EDLT 520

  2. Butterfly

  3. Parts Fore Wing Cell Head Abdomen Spiracle

  4. Life Cycle Eggs Larva Pupa Full Butterfly Adult

  5. Characteristics • In the entire world, no butterflies migrate like the monarchs of eastern North America [2]. • Monarch females can lay several hundred eggs, usually laying a single egg on a plant. • Monarch caterpillars eat plants only in the milkweed family [1]. • Adult monarchs drink nectar from many species of flowers. Nectar contains sugar, which serves as the main energy source for monarchs. • Monarchs have an effective chemical defense to protect them from predation; when they eat milkweed, they sequester the poisonous cardiac glycosides in the milkweed[2].

  6. Characteristics • Male and female monarchs are easily distinguished: males have a black spot on a vein on each hind wing that is not present on the female. • Adult monarchs in summer generations live from 2-5 weeks; those that emerge in late summer and early fall can live up to 8-9 months [1]. • Most monarchs found east of the Rockies winter in the Transverse Neovolcanic Mountain Belt in Mexico. • Monarch butterflies are found throughout the U.S., in southern Canada, Caribbean Islands, Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Islands[1]. • Not all monarchs migrate[2].

  7. References [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly [2] http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/monarch-butterflies-facts.html

More Related