By: Gracie
What It Looks Like
Most Butterflies are the size of
dinner plates.
Butterflies can have many
different colors of body
covering. Butterflies also have
scales on their wings.
Life Cycle
In the spring they come back to
Manitoba and find milkweed plants.
They lay their eggs on the milk weed. 1st It
is a tiny ridged egg no bigger than a head
of a pin. 2nd the caterpillar begins to
grow/ the egg changes color 1st yellow
then grey then it turns dark grey. The
caterpillar bites a hole in its shell then a
new baby caterpillar is born!
Once the eggs hatch the caterpillars eat
the milkweed. They become poisonous,
and they make their chrysalis. Then they
change into a butterfly . They come out
of the chrysalis as a butterfly. Then they
dry their wings, and they are ready to fly.
Food
What they eat:
They sip the nectar from
flowers, They also eat
milkweed.
They usually sleep in a leaf in a
tree or flowers.
Habitat
Monarch butterflies like to live in
warm places. In the winter they fly
to Mexico.
Butterflies fly south for the winter.
It takes 6 weeks for butterflies to
migrate south they are usually 2
miles up in the air when they are
flying south.
Enemies/ Protection.
Protection:
Their enemies are: shrews,
mice, and birds.
Milkweed makes butterflies
poisonous so birds don’t eat
them.
Special body part/How it they move.
Butterflies can taste from their
feet.
They glide and soar above
plants and flowers.
Bibliography
imagesus.com
commons.wikimedia.org
monarch-butterfly.com
imagesci.com
depositphotos.com
hdwpapers.com