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The butterfly uses this part of it's body to taste.
What is it's feet?
In stage one, the adult butterfly lays anywhere from one to one hundred of these on a leaf.
What are eggs?
The butterfly's body temperature is the same as the environment around them making them this.
What is cold blooded?
The hard skin found during the last shedding of the caterpillar which reveals inside the cacoon.
What is a chrysalis?
The number of legs a butterfly has.
What is 6?
They have tiny scales on this part of their body.
What are wings?
In stage one, one of these grows in each egg, and in stage two it hatches!
What is a caterpillar?
In order to stop from freezing during extreme cold temperatures some butterflies hibernate here.
What are holes in trees?
During the Pupa stage, the cells of the caterpillar change into the cells of a butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
One of the fastest butterflies is a Skipper and it can fly up to this many miles per hour.
What is 40?
Tiny knobs at the ends of these help them find nectar.
What is Antennae?
It is the name of the second stage of a caterpillar.
What is the larvae?
This is something the butterfly cannot do when it first emerges from it's cacoon.
What is fly?
Butterflies share this job with bees.
What is a pollinator?
It is the number of stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.
What is 4?
A Proboscis is this very long tubular body part on a butterfly.
What is the tongue?
When the caterpillar sheds it's skin.
What is molting?
This consists of nectar from flowers, salt from mud and juice from rotting fruit.
What is the butterfly's diet?
It is the largest butterfly in the world.
What is the Birdwing Butterfly?
The full grown caterpillar reaches this many inches.
What is two inches?
These give the butterflies good sight.
What are compound eyes?
The pupa is this stage of butterfly development.
What is stage three?
It is the only butterfly known to make a two way migration like birds do.
What is the Monarch Butterfly?
The grasslands, Arctic Tundra and forests and your back yard are all types of this for butterflies.
What is a habitat?
The Birdwing Butterfly's wingspan reaches this many inches long.
What is 12 inches?