Life Cycle
The first stage of the life cycle.
What is an egg?
The long tube used for sipping nectar.
What is a proboscis?
Can adult butterflies fly right away after they come out of the chrysalis?
What is no?
Butterflies need this in order to fly.
What is the sun?
True or false. Butterflies eat solid food.
What are they only drink liquids?
The 2nd stage of the life cycle.
What is larva or caterpillar?
These are used for tasting plants.
What are legs?
This is what a caterpillar eats as its first meal when it is born.
What is the egg shell?
Butterfly eyes are the same as humans.
What is no? Butterflies have compound eyes - many lenses. Humans only have one lens.
What is another name of the butterfly's larva?
What is caterpillar?
The 3rd stage of the life cycle.
What is the pupa or the chrysalis?
These holes are what the caterpillar breathes from.
What are spiracles.
How many times does a caterpillar shed its skin before it becomes a chrysalis?
What is 4 times?
This is the yellow powder that sticks to the butterfly's legs as it goes from flower to flower.
What is pollen?
Is a butterfly a mammal, reptile, or insect?
What is an insect?
The 4th stage of the life cycle.
What is adult butterfly?
What shredded caterpillar skin is called.
What is molt?
Which letter does the caterpillar form at the top of the cup?
What is a J ?
True or false. Butterflies breathe through lungs.
What is false?
Name one difference between a moth and a butterfly.
What is antennae, body length, either in a coocoon or a chrysalis?
What is the shell called that a caterpillar makes around itself?
What is a chrysalis?
The 3 body parts of an insect.
What is head, thorax, and abdomen?
This word means changing from one physical form to another.
What is metamorphosis?
Why do caterpillars spin silk threads?
To balance themselves so they won't fall.
To make a ladder so they can crawl on leaves.
To protect themselves from predators.
Name the order of the 4 stages of a butterfly cycle.
What are egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult?