This document discusses butterflies and moths, providing key differences between the two as well as interesting facts about butterflies. It then describes the full life cycle of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly, including growing, forming a chrysalis, and emerging with wings. The document ends by noting how and what butterflies eat, as well as their average lifespan.

1. My Great Brain
By Kaylin Wilson

2. What are the differences between
butterflies and moths?
They both belong to the same family called Lepidoptera, BUT…
BUTTERFLIES MOTHS
 clubby antennae  fuzzy or feathery antennae
 active at day  active at night
 rest with wings upright  rest with wings spread out

3. What are some interesting facts about
butterflies?
 are cold-blooded
 can fly between 60°-108° F
 have two eyes made up of 10,000 lenses each
 hear with their two antennae
 taste through their feet
 breathe through side of body

4. How does a caterpillar
change into a butterfly?

5. Caterpillars
hatch from
eggs. They
are small to
begin with.
These are my
caterpillars.

6. They grow…….
and eat… and grow some more!!

7. Now comes the exciting part:
they’re starting to hang upside-down!

8. As they
shed their
skin, a
chrysalis
forms.

10. After all the
chrysalises
formed, we
moved them to
their butterfly
habitat, and
they stayed in
their little tiny
dorms for a
little over a
week.

11. When they come out,
they pump blood into
their wings. A few hours
later…duhn duhn duhn
duhn…they can FLY!!!
The red you see is not
blood. It is only
meconium, or leftover
color and tissue from
forming their wings.

12. My pretty
butterfly:
At the Bean museum, we found a Painted Lady
(like mine) compared to a Monarch.

13. How and what does a butterfly eat?
A butterfly uses a straw-like tube called a proboscis to
drink nectar. We feed my butterflies sugar-water and
fresh orange. They seem to like the oranges better.

14. How long does a butterfly live?
 Most butterflies do not live to see their 4
week b-day, because their average lifespan
is 2 weeks. Painted Ladies’ lifespan is 2 to 4
weeks, and mine are 3 weeks old.

15. Butterflies
are neat! I
really
enjoyed
learning
about them.
Thanks for
listening so
politely.