 Morphology is the study of the form or structure of a living thing.
 Here are some examples of morphological adaptations for a Painted
Lady Butterfly
 Butterfly Wings
 A caterpillar is worm-like
 Butterflies can lay eggs
 The legs on a caterpillar go away
 Caterpillars shed their skin

 Hard-ri dged outer layer of shell
 Its called a chorion
 They are lined with a thin coating of wax
 Prevents eggs from drying out
 Micropyles holes that let sperm in

 Tentacles: a pair of thin movable organs on the caterpillar used for touching/feeling.
 Thoracic Legs: Used for holding food, jointed legs with hooks
 Spiracles: Holes in the caterpillars side that it breathes through
 Prolegs: Stumpy Legs
 Disadvantage: Very Big Eater, stays near plant where it was hatched, limited movement

 Cremaster: Used to attach end of butterfly ‘s pupa to a twig or other structure. Series of small hooks or a just a single larger hook, hooks to a silk pad
 Chrysalis: Protective shell that caterpillar goes into for its transformation into a butterfly.
 Disadvantage: cannot move very vulnerable.

 Four wings covered with tiny scales
 Fore wing and hind wing not hooked together for more graceful flight
 Six legs, Jointed legs help it walk
 Feet can stick to surfaces allowing to climb walls and stick on ceilings
 Eat nectar through proboscis
 Proboscis is hollow tube that can roll into the head
 Compound eye gives them multiple visual receptors so the can see more things
 The butterfly needs to pump blood to its wings to “inflate them” before it can fly so it is vulnerable to predators

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