Butterfly
Rhopalocera
Habitat
- All sorts of habitats,( grasslands, forests)
- Everywhere except the artic
- Needs nectar-producing flowers
- Butterflies can't fly if they're cold
Food
- Eat anything liquidised
- Butterflies often drink from mud puddles
- Also, eat sodium
Food chain
- The lower end of the food chain
- birds and mice other animals rely on as food source
- Butterflies employ all kinds of tricks to not get eaten
Lifecycle
- Cocoon gasses change cells to butterfly
Egg glue leaf, 2 weeks
- Caterpillar eat plants
- Comes out of crisilys and can't fly
- Lifespan varies from 1 week to 1 year
Types/what they look like
- 18,000 species
- Butterflies have scales on their wings
- Butterflies recognise by colour and size
- Butterflies are nearsighted
- Can see a lot of colours
- 2 eyes single compound
- Looking at wings irritates eyes
These are the websites I used
Everyone knows what a butterfly is, right? Well if you don't you have been living under a rock your whole life. Butterflies are beautiful creatures, and there are so many types, 18,000 species to be exact.
Everyone sees butterflies as beautiful creatures, but they don't always start out that way. First, they start out as an egg, butterflies generally lay eggs on the underside of a leaf, using special glue the egg sticks to the leaf for 2 weeks, then it hatches.
When a caterpillar hatches it eats and eats, and eats. Then when it feels ready and it has enough food stored it will wander off to find a place to make a chrysalis.
When the caterpillar has made the chrysalis, it lets off special gases that change the cells in the caterpillar to the cells of a butterfly. This process takes anywhere from 5 to 21 days.
When the butterfly comes out of the chrysalis it can't fly, because its wings are still new. A butterflies lifespan varies from 1 week to 1 year, depending on the species and the climate.
Butterflies will live just about anywhere, they will live in grasslands, forests, and even the Arctic tundra. But they won't live in the artic or Antarctica because it's too cold, and they can't fly when they're cold. To survive butterflies have to be surrounded by nectar-producing flowers so they can eat.
Butterflies will eat anything liquidised. That means anything that is a liquid they will eat, (nectar, sugar water, juices from fruit). Butterflies eat through a tube-like tongue that filters out the good stuff from the bad stuff. Butterflies will also often eat from a mud puddle. Mud puddles have the nutrients that butterflies need to survive because they can't just live off nectar. Some butterflies will eat the tears of turtles because they are salty and some butterflies love sodium.
Butterflies are part of the food chain, but they are on the lower end of the food chain. Butterflies biggest predators are birds, mice and other small animals. These animals rely on the butterfly as a food source. Butterflies have all sorts of little tricks that help them to not get eaten. They mimic animals bigger than them like snakes to trick predators and scare them away.
Butterflies are dazzling creatures, their wings are stunning, but did you know that their wings are transparent and are made out of tiny little scales that reflect off the sun and create patterns and colours. Butterflies are nearsighted, that means that within 10-12 feet, their eyesight is perfect but anything further is slightly blurry to them. Butterflies can see colours very well, this helps them a lot especially for finding food and mating. Butterflies find mates of their own species from colour and size. Butterflies have 2 types of eyes, they are called single and compound eyes. The single eyes are used for seeing things like you and me and the compound eyes are used for seeing flowers and mates.
Heres a tip: never look directly at a butterflies wings, they won't make you bling but the wings will irritate your eyes.
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| This is the butterfly, caterpillar, and chrysalis. |
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| This is the egg (tiny right) |
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