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=Angelina's butterfly page=

= Butterfly’s menu = Butterfly’s food is nectar and juice dribbles from fruit. The butterfly does not eat,it only drinks. Butterflies drink through their proboscis. The proboscis rolls out when the butterfly is drinking, then rolls back up. Nectar gives the butterflies lots of energy to fly.

= Butterfly’s predators = Butterfly’s predators are praying mantises, rats, stick insects, flies, birds, wasps, snakes, toads, monkeys, spiders and lizards. Some of these animals eat butterflies. When butterflies are in danger they have spots on their wings that look like eyes to scare their predators away. Some also have a special spray that the predators don’t like. They can hide from the predators by camouflaging as flowers. They can also scare their predators by poison colours. Butterflies have six legs (that means they are insects.)

= what butterflies look like = They are very colourful. They have three body parts – a thorax, an abdomen and a head. They have two pairs of wings that are big triangular wings and have a spot on the wing that means it is a female. If it does not it is a male. Butterflies have a proboscis. The proboscis is for drinking. (you can find out more about the proboscis in Butterfly’s Menu.) = Where butterflies live = Butterflies live in rainforests, gardens and nectar on pollen flowers. Butterflies live in rainforests because it is the right weather and it is moist. Butterflies live in gardens because there are flowers for the butterflies to find nectar.

= A butterfly life cycle = First the butterfly lays eggs. Inside the egg there is a caterpillar.( A caterpillar is long. You might find one on a cabbage.) Next the caterpillar’s egg hatches. The caterpillar eats the eggs shell. Next the caterpillar eats the leaf its egg was laid on. Now the caterpillar is growing. It sheds its skin three or four times. When the caterpillar is ready, it will make a chrysalis.( A chrysalis is like a cocoon.) The caterpillar makes a chrysalis around its body. The butterfly comes out of the chrysalis on a few days.



= Special features of a butterfly = Butterflies have lots of special features. These are antennae, feet, some butterflies have a spray, some are camouflaged and some have poison colours. The antennae is used for smelling. The feet are used for taste. The spray is used for spraying at its predators. The poison colours are to scare away their predators. The camouflage so predators can’t see them.