butterflies achieve 3000 article “what butterflies can tell us”

Butterflies

Achieve 3000 Article“What Butterflies Can Tell Us”

Why Butterflies?

• Why are we concerned about the butterfly?

Why Butterflies?

• How might climate change affect migration patterns?

Why Butterflies?

• What might cause a butterfly population to decline?

Some facts about butterflies• Butterflies are

Arthropods that undergo complete metamorphosis

• Egg, larva (caterpillars), pupa (chrysalis) and adult

Some facts about butterflies• Butterflies have

taste receptors on their feet

• Butterflies have four wings

• Most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers

Some facts about butterflies

• Monarchs eat poisonous milkweed for protection from predators

• Viceroy butterfly mimics appearance monarch for protection

• Every year monarch butterflies will migrate a great distance - sometimes over 4,000 km!

Why Butterflies?

• Butterflies have a very short life cycle therefore they are sensitive to environmental changes

• Species counts can provide information about the environment