Life Cycle
Vocabulary
Parts of a Caterpillar
Parts of a Butterfly
Miscellaneous
100

The first stage of the Monarch butterfly life cycle.

Egg

100
The sweet liquid found in flowers.
What is nectar?
100
The first major part of the caterpillar's body.
What is head?
100
The first main body part of the adult butterfly.
What is head?
100
Monarch butterflies wings warn predators that they are this.
What is poisonous?
200

The second stage of the Monarch butterfly life cycle.

Caterpillar or larva

200
An insect that has two pairs of brightly colored wings and a slender body.
What is a butterfly?
200
Located on the head.
What is antennae?
200
The part of the body that contains the muscles that makes the legs and wings move.
What is the thorax?
200
A Monarch butterfly's foot helps it to do this.
What is taste?
300

The caterpillar grows x times from egg to chrysalis. 

2000 times its starting size. 

300
The plant that is the diet of the Monarch caterpillar.
What is milkweed?
300
The second main section of the caterpillar's body.
What is the thorax?
300
The part of the body the butterfly uses to drink nectar from flowers.
What is proboscis?
300
Monarch butterflies do this when the seasons change.
What is migrate?
400
The third stage of the Monarch butterfly life cycle where the caterpillar changes into an adult.
What is chrysalis or pupa?
400
Insect development in which an egg, larva, pupal, and adult stages occur.
What is metamorphosis?
400
The third main part of the caterpillar's body.
What is abdomen?
400
The part of the body used like a nose.
What is antennae?
400
The instinct of the Monarch butterfly is to go, go, go to this place.
What is Mexico?
500
The final stage of the Monarch butterfly life cycle.
What is adult?
500
To come into existence, develop.
What is emerge?
500
The caterpillar breathes through these holes located in it's side.
What is spiracles?
500
These two parts are really four parts of the butterfly's body.
What is forewing and hindwing?
500
The Monarch gets its poison when it is a caterpillar from eating this plant.
What is milkweed?
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