Butterfly%20Project

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Butterfly Project

• A lesson for ecology.

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Butterflies have awesome adaptations.

• The Monarch lays eggs in the milkweed plants.
  When the caterpillars come out, they feed on the
  milkweed plant. The milkweed has a terrible taste
  which makes the monarch poisonous to birds.

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Camouflage
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Even a chrysalis is camouflaged.
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Mimicry

• The buckeye and owl butterflies have eye spots.

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The Viceroy looks like the monarch. (monarch on
left)
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. And mutations.
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The Peppered Moth

• Started off http//www.biologycorner.com/worksheet
  s/pepperedmoth.html