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Painted Lady Butterflies

Painted Lady Butterflies. From Caterpillars to Butterflies. Information about Your Caterpillars. Lay 500 eggs Most known butterflies Taste with their feet They have 10,000 eyes Breath through their abdomen!!! The food they are eating is malva porridge. Life Cycle. Compare. Super worm.

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Painted Lady Butterflies

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  1. Painted Lady Butterflies From Caterpillars to Butterflies

  2. Information about Your Caterpillars • Lay 500 eggs • Most known butterflies • Taste with their feet • They have 10,000 eyes • Breath through their abdomen!!! • The food they are eating is malva porridge.

  3. Life Cycle

  4. Compare Super worm Butterfly 4 stages Egg, larva, pupa, adult. • 4 stages • Egg, larva, pupa, adult.

  5. The Egg Stage • The eggs are laid on a plant stem or under a leaf. • They are 1mm in size. • Green and oval. • They breath through a tiny hole. • When the larva emerges, it eats the egg shell!!

  6. Different Butterflies • Different butterflies will lay their eggs in different places! • Why do you think so? • For protection. • To stick so they don’t fall down! • Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on Milkweed. Peacock butterflies lay their eggs on nettles…

  7. The Larva Stage • When they first emerge they are tiny threadlike larvae. 0.5 – 1 cm in length. • They are voracious eaters! • As it molts it begins to look like the caterpillars. • They have 13 segments. • Near the head or 3 pairs of legs making it a total of 6 legs. • Towards the back of the body are 5 suction cups that help the caterpillar adhere to surfaces. • They molt 4 to 6 times.

  8. Larva Stage

  9. The Last MOLT • This is the most interesting molt the larva will go through. • After the final molt the caterpillar has already attached itself to a solid surface and will begin to spin webbing and hang itself upside down. • The caterpillar shortens and begins to shape itself into an oval. • The webbing will harden and form a chrysalis.

  10. Molting is a bit different…

  11. The Chrysalis Stage • This stage is also known as the pupa stage. • It will last between 7 to 10 days. • This is when metamorphosis takes place for the caterpillar to transform into a butterfly.

  12. Adult Stage • The chrysalis opens from the bottom and the butterfly comes out head first. • This is because the butterfly needs to have its wings hanging upside down to prepare them for flight. • A reddish coloured liquid flows from the body into the wings. This liquid is called meconium. • The butterfly will uncurl and get ready to spread its wings for flight.  • They live from 2-4 weeks.

  13. Adult Stage

  14. Parts of the Butterfly

  15. Adaptations to stay alive • A caterpillar has had to adapt to protect itself since it is a soft and juicy food source for many animals. • Poisonous • Spiky • Camouflage

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