Life Cycle
Name of the top wing section.
What is the forewing dorsal wing?
Type of butterfly that lays eggs on milkweed (discussed in class).
What is a monarch?
The invertebrate group to which butterflies belong.
Name of the bottom wing section.
What is the hindwing?
Type of butterfly that lays its eggs on fennel.
What is a swallowtail?
Monarch butterflies travel over long distances. Another name for this type of traveling.
What is migration?
Total number of legs on a butterfly.
What is 6?
Name for the type of eye on a butterfly.
What is a compound eye?
Western Tiger Swallowtail butterflies are _________ to California.
What is "native"?
Butterflies use their proboscis to drink __________.
What is "nectar"?
This is the third part of the body of the butterfly and it's the biggest.
What is abdomen?
This is the transformation stage of the butterfly.
What is the third or pupa stage?
This type of butterfly lays its eggs on stinging nettle.
What is the Red Admiral?
The longest lived butterflies can live for up to ________ years.
What is two?
The straw-like part of the butterfly through which they drink nectar.
What is a proboscis?
Number of life stages of a butterfly.
What is 4 (egg, larva, pupa, adult)?
Type of plant on which painted ladies like to lay their eggs.
What is mallow?
jThe term for a type of animal that helps to pollinate plants.
What is a pollinator?