Amazing Butterflies!

1. Amazing Butterflies! 2011 By Maria Lopez

2. Starting With eggs! Butterfly eggs are extremely tiny. Most are less than one tenth of an inch (3 millimeters) long.

3. Eating Machines! An Archduke Caterpillar from Malaysia munches on a leaf. It is covered in spines and irritating, distasteful hairs so that birds and other animals would not want to eat it.

4. Life Cycle Of a Butterfly! Butterflies have four life stations. It is larva, pupa and adult. First a adult butterfly lays eggs. The eggs hatch and they turn into a tiny caterpillars. The caterpillars eat and eat and eat until they are fat as a fat spider’s tummy. They wrap themselves in a cocoon. They wait a few weeks and then they hatch. The caterpillars turn into a beautiful butterflies.

5. The Garden Butterflies! Butterflies can camouflage themselves when they are on flowers or something else. They are found in most parts of the world. They occur in the greatest numbers in the tropics.

6. Fun Facts! Butterfly are found in almost every kind of place in the earth. Malay Lacewing butterfly can lay it’s eggs one at a time on a plant stem. The eggs of different butterfly's species look very different from each other. Butterflys play an important role in our world.

7. Bonus Page Butterflys can be different colors. Butterflys brighten and add a touch of color to any garden they visit. They are fragile animals. A Butterflys wings are 15 millimeters a cross even when its outstretched. The largest is the queen Alexandra butterfly from New Guinea. Butterflys can find its way to someone else's garden or back yard.