Three Representative Organisms

The monarch butterfly, as known as Danaus plexippus, is often called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat the milkweed plant. They are also sometimes called "royalty butterflies" because their family name comes from the daughter of Danaus, ruler of Argos. There are many other interesting facts about this butterfly including its anatomy and life cycle, where the butterfly lies on the food chain, the migration from Canada to Mexico, why the butterfly is being threatened, and lastly, what is being done to help the butterfly.

Caterpillars and butterflies are made up of DNA which gives a butterfly it’s unique colors, the length of its antennas DNA happens to be called amino acids.

     The monarch butterfly, as known as Danaus plexippus, is often called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat the milkweed plant. They are also sometimes called "royalty butterflies" because their family name comes from the daughter of Danaus, ruler of Argos. There are many other interesting facts about this butterfly including its anatomy and life cycle, where the butterfly lies on the food chain, the migration from Canada to Mexico, why the butterfly is being threatened, and lastly, what is being done to help the butterfly.

The Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle has four stages, it begins with the egg, the caterpillar, the pupa, and then it emerges into an Adult butterfly.The female adult monarch butterfly mates with a male butterfly, and later lays its eggs specifically on a milkweed plant. After the eggs hatch, they turn into larva. The larva then spins a silky mat which turns into a chrysalis. Finally, the larva merges into an adult monarch butterfly.

The Moths symbolize the subjugations/oppression that one may face within life. The narrator, a fourteen year old adolescent girl wants nothing to do with the cultural norms imposed upon her. It is pointed out that she “wasn’t even pretty or nice like my older sisters” her “hands were too big to handle the fineries of crocheting or embroidery” ,and was subsequently ridiculed by being called “Bull Hands”. She also had no interest in religion as she would skip mass and eventually get into trouble with her patriarchal figure Apa (her father). She did not conform to the roles expected of her; she felt alone

On the surface, the title choice of “The Chrysalids” seems very strange. Nothing to do with caterpillars, butterflies or chrysalids are mentioned at any time in the novel. Despite this, one of the most important elements in the story is change, and it revolves around metamorphosis.

Earthworms are found in the phylum Annelida. () They can vary in size. Their bodies are segmented which allows them to compartmentalize. The number of segments the species is born with will stay the same throughout their life. Normally, the number of segments found is similar within specimens. Remarkably, earthworms have the ability to regenerate lost segments. ()

As the larva continues to grow, it starts to show a pattern of yellow, black, and white bands across its body and becomes covered in short bristles called setae. It is at this stage where the tentacles start to form. One pair grows from the abdomen and another from the thorax, or the middle section of the body. The larva gets bigger and the bands become more pronounced and the tentacles more elongated. Legs on the thorax change into a smaller pair closer toward the head and the pair at the abdomen grow larger. The caterpillar starts eating the edges of the leaves from where they were hatched and develops white spots

Life cycle TS: The life cycle of the monarch butterfly is divided into four stages: larvae, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly-the larvae turns into the caterpillar which will develop a chrysalis state to turn it into an adult butterfly with a lifespan which can be about 2-6 weeks, but 4th generation monarchs will migrate and live around 6-8 months.

Butterflies are also mentioned in the short story “Night Women”. The woman describes her son as a butterfly because of her inability

Before you learn about Indiana butterflies, you’ll need to know some butterfly basics. First, butterflies are insects with wings made of colorful scales, a curled up mouthpart called a proboscis, and clubbed antennae, with thick ends like baseball bats. Butterflies are part of an insect order, a category level entomologists (people who study insects) use to organize insects into groups, called Lepidoptera, along with moths. The name Lepidoptera comes from the Greek words for “scale” (lepido) and “wing” (pteron).

According the Helping the Monarch Butterfly’s website, the monarch butterfly goes through four stages before it is fully matured: the egg, the larvae, the pupa, and the adult butterfly. The first stage begins with mated butterflies migrating north or east to safely lay their eggs on milkweed plants. When hatched, entering the larvae stage, the baby caterpillars then feed on the milkweed for two weeks. After stuffing itself full for weeks, the caterpillar

Like all beetles, jewel beetles undergo metamorphosis. They go through four life stages; egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Females usually deposit eggs on the host tree in the crevices of the bark. When they hatch, they immediately tunnel in to the tre. This is where they feed and develop. An adult then exits the tree.

Bean beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), are agricultural pest insects of Africa and Asia that presently range throughout the tropical and subtropical world. This species also is known as the southern cowpea weevil. The larvae of this species feed and develop exclusively on the seed of legumes (Fabaceae) hence the name bean beetle. The adults do not require food or water and spend their limited lifespan (one - two weeks) mating and laying eggs on beans. The systematic placement of bean beetles is as follows: Callosobruchus is one of the genera in the subfamily Bruchinae (seed beetles) that is in the family Chrysomeloidae (Kergoat et al. 2007). This group is part of the order of beetles, Coleoptera (from

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