Name: ________________________
Group: ________________________
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail- Environmentalist
As we know from reading A Place for Butterflies, butterflies depend on different things to survive. Eastern Tiger Swallowtails can live in our own backyards by eating trees and the plants we put in our own gardens! Your job as the group Environmentalist is to find out how these butterflies protect themselves in nature, and to help make your butterfly garden as safe as you can for your butterflies!
Visit the following links to answer these questions: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/species/Tigersw.shtml
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/eastern_tiger_swallowtail.htm
http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/eastern-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly/index.html
Baby (newly hatched) caterpillars are camouflaged from predators because they are colored to look like bird droppings .
To protect themselves, the older (green) caterpillars have false eyespots their heads.
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This protects them from predators because makes them look like a snake, makes them look bigger, predators attack different part
A butterfly can lose part of its wing and still survive!
Some female Eastern Tiger Swallowtails copies the Pipevine Swallowtail’s patterns. This is called mimicry . It does this because Pipevine Swallowtails taste bad to predators and that stops them from eating the mimics
Name some predators that are a danger to the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail: many birds, squirrels, raccoons, shrews
You will learn from your team’s dietician that the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail likes to get salts and minerals from the mud! Go to this website, and learn how to make a butterfly mud bath in your butterfly garden!! http://www.ehow.com/how_4581486_butterfly-mud-bath.html
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