Swallowtail butterfly

ELLs, whose primary language is Spanish. The purpose of this unit is to make students aware that each living thing has a life cycle and that although similar, life cycles differ from species to species. All students are familiar with chicks, butterflies, and frogs, and most have seen these animals before. However, most students do not have any prior knowledge on life cycles. Therefore, the teacher will be introducing this concept with manipulative, so the idea is easier for students to grasp. The

Introduction The monarch butterfly annual migration is a visually spectacular feat, in terms of the number of butterflies flying to their overwintering sites and as well as the masses that congregates at the overwintering sites in Mexico. The idea that monarch butterflies exhibited migratory behavior was once controversial, it was not until Fred Urquhart and his colleagues pioneered a tagging work with the eastern North American population for decades that revealed the long distance of the monarch

Monarch Butterflies and Chemical Pollution There has been a 90% decline of monarch butterflies from last year population (Francis Skalicky, Aug 30,2017 from Monarch butterfly population has declined 90 percent over the span of ... ).Chemical pollution has a really big effect on the decline of monarch butterflies. People using herbicide on crops are killing them. Using pesticides on their plants decline their population. The monarchs face predators along the way which may cause the population

taken away through unjust power. The fight to win it all back. These are all crucial components of the novel Before we Were Free by Julia Alvarez. The story shows the growth of the young girl protagonist, Anita as she slowly comes out to become a butterfly who struggles to gain back her freedom and to grow the strength to soar in the open blue sky of her motherland, the Dominican Republic. This novel expresses three themes, rebellion, freedom, and maturation, which are linked and intertwined with each

climate change and benefit the monarch butterflies ,so they may achieve higher levels of population?Climate change has always been a big problem ,but never taken care of resulting in many cons.It is important to reduce climate change because it can greatly benefit butterflies and improve the world around us.If you can’t do the little things in life, what makes you think you can do the big things?Climate change affects the Monarch butterflies in the butterfly species in categories such as hibernation

Silence of the lambs is a phenomenal book that encompasses a variety of literary themes. Arguably two of the best used themes out of this novel is transformation and symbolism. Most of the major characters inside of this book are going through some sort of inner transformation and there are usually always symbols pointing towards this. To allow us as readers to receive an insight into these conflicts, Thomas Harris uses an omniscient narrator so that we not only visualize the outside disputes, but

Students will be able to label the four stages of a caterpillar as they change into butterflies. Language Arts target: • The learner will develop and apply strategies to read and write. Science target: • The learner will make observations and build an understanding of similarities and differences in animals. Observe and describe the similarities

to the organism because they are visibly similar to the eyes of predators such as owls (Howse 2013). The results from one experiment conducted by Blest (1957) studied the number of averted attacks by birds on a butterfly with eyespots compared to the number of averted attacks on a butterfly with the eyespots concealed from rubbing the wings (Stevens).

Lyctus brunneus Powder Post Beetle The powder post beetle is in a group of seventy species of wood boring beetles. They are in the kingdom Animalia, phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Coleoptera, family Lyctidae, and species Lyctus brunneus. Their size is typically 1/8 to 1/4 inches and they are found in the United States. Their color variates between a reddish brown to black on their narrow, flat bodies. The adult beetles are able to fly and like most insects are attracted to light. They

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration The Monarch butterfly is a large orange and black butterfly that has been very well known throughout our lives, catching our eyes almost instantly. As children, many of us used to chase the creature around in our yards all spring and summer long. But, where do these Monarch butterflies disappear to when the climate changes and winter approaches, and what brings them back? The Monarch butterflies in North America undergo what is known as the longest insect