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Insects Life Cycle

Caterpillar Facts Butterfly and Moth Facts

Kinds of Butterflies and Moths

All insects are alike in certain ways. All insects have six legs. They also all have three main parts to their bodies. Most insects have wings and a pair of feelers called antennae. All insects start life as a small egg.-Brandon

Insects

Life CycleLife Cycle

The Life Cycle

The Adult

The Egg

The Moth Pupa

The Larva

Metamorphosis

The Butterfly Pupa

Caterpillars grow and change into a butterfly or moth. This change is called metamorphosis.-Makaila

Metamorphosis

Butterflies look different from each other, but all butterflies grow and change in the same way. This is called a life cycle. It has four stages.-Dalton

The Life Cycle

A butterfly starts its life as an egg. The mother butterfly lays many eggs. Inside each egg is a caterpillar. Eggs are laid in the spring or summer.-Dakota

Stage 1 - The Egg

A caterpillar hatches from an egg. It’s time to eat. The caterpillar gobbles up leaves all day.-Tyejah

Stage 2 - The Larva

The caterpillar grows a hard skin around itself. The skin is called a chrysalis (say kris-uh-lis). The caterpillar changes inside the chrysalis. -LaJohn

Stage 3 - The Butterfly Pupa

The pupa stage is sometimes called the “resting stage” because, in this stage, insects usually do not move around. Moth larva make a cocoon spun from their silken webs.-Jacob O.

Stage 3 - The Moth Pupa

Butterflies are insects. Both butterflies and moths belong to the family of insects called Lepidoptera.-John O.

Stage 4 - The Adult

Caterpillar Caterpillar FactsFacts

Caterpillar Body Parts Molting It’s Skin

A caterpillar has a head and thirteen body segments, six true legs, eight prolegs, twelve eyes and breathing holes called spiracles.-Jamia

Caterpillar Body Parts

Caterpillars have a head, 23 body segments, 6 true legs and 8 to 10 false legs. Their mouths are called mandibles.-Courtney

Molting It’s Skin

Butterfly and Moth FactsButterfly and Moth Facts

The Body of a Butterfly

The Mouth

Strange Facts

What They Eat Comparing Moths and Butterflies

The Wings

A butterfly or moth has three main body parts. They are the head, thorax and abdomen. They have six legs, two antenna and wings.-Atmila

The Body of a Butterfly

The wing colors are made up of tiny little scales a little bit like the scales on a fish. If you touch a butterfly’s wings, some scales will come off on your finger and you will be able to see the color.-Tesla

The Wings

Butterflies find food with their eyes. Butterflies and moths have compound eyes. Their eyes are made up of hundreds of lenses. They can see in all directions. They smell with their antenna and taste with their front feet.-Wesley

Strange Facts

All butterflies and moths that eat when they are adults have a proboscis for a mouth. This is a hollow tube used for sucking up nectar, water, and other liquids. When not in use, the proboscis is coiled up in front of the insect’s head.-Jacob S.

The Mouth

Nectar is the sweet liquid produced by many flowers and is the most common food of many moths and butterflies. Some species eat the juice of rotting fruit or tree sap.-John M.

What They Eat

How can you tell a moth from a butterfly? There are three different ways. 1- A butterfly is lighter colored than most moths. 2- Butterflies fly in the day and moths fly at night. 3- Moths have hairy antennae and butterflies have smooth ones. Those are just some of the comparisons of a butterfly and moth.-Grace

Comparing Moths and Butterflies

Kinds of Kinds of Butterflies and Butterflies and

MothsMoths

Tiger Moth

Swallowtail Butterfly Luna Moth

Painted Lady ButterflyCabbage Butterfly

The body of the Cabbage Butterfly is all black and all of the wings are white. There is a black band at the tip of the top wing and a dot in the center. In the center of the bottom wing is another dot. It is 1.3-1.8 inches in width, and 1.5-2.0 inches in height. The butterfly is found throughout North America. It eats cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower.-Aaron

Cabbage Butterfly

The Painted Lady prefers nectar from plants 3-6 feet high. The butterfly lives almost everywhere except in Australia and Antarctica. Painted Lady butterflies have a wing span of 2-2 7/8 inches (5.1- 7.3 cm). The wings are orange-brown and dark brown.-Brianna

Painted Lady Butterfly

The swallowtail has two tails on its wings. These tails look like the long wings of a bird called the swallow. There are different kinds of swallowtail butterflies. Some live in wet marshes. Others live in dry fields. Swallowtails live all over the world, except for the frozen lands! -Michael

Swallowtail Butterfly

The Isabella Tiger Moth’s abdomen is brown and yellow with black marks. The wings are brown and yellow. The wingspan is 2 inches wide. Animals will not eat the Tiger Moth because it is poisonous. The woolly bear caterpillar is red, brown and black on both ends on the spine. The woolly bear caterpillars are actually the larva of the Tiger Moth.-Bailey

Tiger Moth

The Luna moth lives in North America and the eastern U.S. The wings have long tails and the color is greenish yellow. The Luna moth has a wingspan of 4.5-5 inches and is one of the largest moths in North America.-Amanda

Luna Moth

Created by:Mrs. O’Hara’s

2nd Grade classwith Mrs. DostalLincoln School

2007