...Butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species. Many species have long larval life stages while others can remain dormant in their pupal or egg stages and thereby survive winters.[3] Butterflies may have one or more broods per year. The number of generations per year varies from temperate to tropical regions with Butterfly eggs are protected by a hard-ridged outer layer of shell, called the chorion. This is lined w Eggs are almost invariably laid on plants. Each species of butterfly has its own hostplant range and while some species of butterfly are restricted to just one species of plant, others use a range of plant species, often including members of a common family.[citation needed] The egg stage lasts a few weeks in most butterflies but eggs laid close to winter, especially in temperate regions, go through a diapause (resting) stage, and the hatching may take place only in spring. Other butterflies may lay their eggs in the spring and have them hatch in the summer. These butterflies are usually northern species, such as the Mourning Cloak (Camberwell Beauty) and the Large and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies.[citation needed] Caterpillars Caterpillars of Junonia coenia. Butterfly larvae, or caterpillars, consume plant leaves and spend practically all of their time in search of food. Although most caterpillars are herbivorous, a few species such as Spalgis epius and Liphyra brassolis are entomophagous (insect...
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...PRACTICAL 5 Macroscopic Identification of Macrofungi INTRODUCTION Macroscopic character an measurement need to be recorded from fresh materials as these would provided reference material for accurate identification of fungi. Therefore, several visible characters of macrofungi must be identified such as cap, stip, gill flesh. Description of macromorphological character of sporocarp are among the most critical data for the identification pf Agaricales and other macrofungi. In many species of fleshy macrofungi, those characters are lost when the sporocarp are dried, and so they must be documented carefully before drying. Conversely, sporocarp of many macrofungi that grow on woody substrata are nonputrescent, and they usually retain macromorphological features when preserved. The procedure for describing macrofungi depends on the type of fungus under consideration and also on the invetigator. Form, worksheets, or computer format should be organized so that a description is recorded in logically sequence. Most investigator begin with the pileus nd move downward through the lamella or tubes, stip and finally to any veils that are present. OBJECTIVE 1. To describe macroscopic features of a selected fungal species in laboratory. 2. To assemble the whole detail of fungal specimen (including photograph) in a specimens record sheet. Pleurotus osteratus Macroscopic description 1. Pileus apex – Papilate 2. Pileus surface – Glaborous(smooth) 3. Pileus...
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...“Butterfly Fairy”: Artist Statement Have you ever thought about how long a person can survive under a tree? Our environmentalist, Julia Butterfly Hill, broke a world record of living on a redwood tree for 738 days. Hill was an environmentalist, dedicated to protect some of our Earth’s most precious resources-- especially the redwood trees. However, Hill was not always dedicated in protecting the environment, until she was involved in a severe car accident at the age of 22. A drunk driver had aggressively hit against her car, resulting in her vehicle's steering wheel penetrating through her skull. During her years of difficult physical and cognitive therapy, Hill had decided to make a new direction in her life: become a new advocate for the environment....
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...Science (Life Cycle of a Butterfly) Objective: You will be able to describe the process a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. Student Role: A news reporter of a science television station Audience: Your favorite television station viewers Format: An informative newscast report Topic: Have you ever wondered what a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly? Directions: 1. Visit The Children’s Butterfly Site to learn more about the butterfly life cycle. 2. Use a storyboard worksheet to map out your script. 3. Type your script so it is easy to read. 4. Practice reading your script aloud until you feel you can read it fluently and with expression. 5. Create a video at Screencast-O-Matic. 6. Read and record your script as a professional news reporter. Resources: Websites to visit: The Children’s Butterfly Site http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/life-cycle Enchanted Learning : All About Butteflies http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/lifecycle/ Learn About Nature theButterflySite.com http://www.thebutterflysite.com/life-cycle.shtml The Life Cycle of a Butterfly http://www.tooter4kids.com/LifeCycle/Butterfly_Life_Cycle.htm The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Its Life Cycle http://education.nationalgeographic.org/activity/the-very-hungry-caterpillar-and-the-butterfly-life-cycle/ Assessment: Prepare a 3-5-minute script for a newscast segment to explain how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Explain...
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...EDUCATION Life Cycle of a Butterfly Bamba, Phamella F. Name BEED 2-D Year and Section Second Semester S.Y 2013-2014 MRS. REMELIE R. ROBLES Instructor I. Objectives * Students will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. * Identify the four different stages of a butterfly life cycle (from egg, caterpillar, pupa or cocoon, to a butterfly). II. Subject Matter Topic: Life Cycle of a Butterfly Materials: Real eggs of a butterfly, caterpillar, cocoon, a butterfly, pictures III. Procedure A. Motivation I’m a Hungry Caterpillar (tune of I’m a Little teapot) I’m hungry caterpillar Walking slowly Looking for something To fill my belly When I go to sleep I’ll make a little cocoon Pop! I’ll be a butterfly soon. B. Discussion I will show to the class the four different stages of a butterfly life cycle one by one, which are the eggs, caterpillar, cocoon and a butterfly and explain to them each stage. * The first stage is the eggs. This is where a girl butterfly lays eggs. She lays them on a leaf. * The second stage is the caterpillar. At this stage, the caterpillar eats all the time. It also grows really fast. * The third stage is the cocoon. The caterpillar makes a cocoon. It is mostly brown or green. This protects them. * The fourth stage is the butterfly. A butterfly comes out of the cocoon. It can now learn to fly. Butterflies are very colorful. * A butterfly finds a...
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...Outline of the Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly Betty Boatwright PRES111-1203B-23 7/30/12 American Intercontinental University The Life Cycle of the Monarch Specific purpose: To inform the audience about where the Monarch butterfly originated, and how they migrate from north to south. Central idea: Butterflies are beautiful creatures, but must go through several processing stages in order to become a Monarch butterfly. Introduction I. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in nature. A. The flight of the Monarch butterfly can take your imagination to places it has never been before. B. Their beautiful colors can give you the feeling of joy and happiness. II. A thing of beauty can be kept on your mine for years to come. III. This is my passion because the Monarch butterflies are peaceful and their colors are hypnotizing. IV. Today I will be addressing the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly and how it progresses from stage to stage. (Transition: Let’s start at the beginning of the Monarch butterfly.) Body I. Today I will talk about the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, what the word Monarch means, and where it evolved from. A. The Monarch butterfly is a large migratory American butterfly with orange and black wings with black veins and borders. 1. The name Monarch comes from Kesh’s buju. 2. Where did the Monarch butterfly come from? The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a wide spread tropical insect that ranges as far north as Canada...
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...The Death of a Butterfly “Las Mariposas”, The Butterflies, is the codename given to the Mirabal sisters upon their emergence into the Dominican Revolution. While the name grew from Minerva’s underground name, it also took on a symbol of hope, change, and transformation behind the suppression of the Dominican people. Throughout the novel each sister represents a different stage of the butterfly life cycle: Dede as an Egg, Patria as a caterpillar, Maria as a Pupa, and Minerva as an adult; each respective stage symbolizes the different levels of courage and sacrifice devoted to their country’s freedom from tyrant Rafael Trujillo. Alvarez uses symbolism in “The Time of the Butterflies” to suggest that the price of freedom paid by the Mirabal Sisters was not worth the cost when butterflies have such short lives. Butterflies have grown to symbolize a variety of different meanings throughout history and culture. Their metamorphosis is typically construed as a representation of change, purity, and rebirth, while some cultures view butterflies as a depiction of the soul or a transition between lives. Dede takes on the “Egg” stage of the butterfly life cycle as her character faces many obstacles despite being the least involved sister. Like the egg, Dede remains planted firmly where she was laid. “A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she doesn’t want to be the only one left to tell their...
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...Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Group 5 Karey Brown Jeff Fortenberry Suzie Hall Samantha Vazquez International Issues Business BUSI 4703 Dr. Juan Castro December 17, 2002 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Why Butterfly Farming? 2 The History of Butterflies and Butterfly Farming 4 The Business of Butterfly Farming Butterflies 5 A Day in the Life of a Butterfly Farmer 6 Country Analysis: Costa Rica 8 The Land 9 Plant and Animal Life 10 The People 11 Greetings and Courtesies 13 Business Culture 14 The Economy 16 Table 1 17 Graphs 1, 2 18 Finance 18 Table 2 19 Government 19 Education 20 Health and Welfare 20 Resources 21 Agriculture 21 Table of Contents (cont.) Industry 22 Trade 22 Transportation 23 Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Operations Equipment and Supplies 25 Employees 27 Marketing Butterflies 28 Exportation/Shipping 31 Conclusion 32 Works Cited 33 Butterfly Beauties brochure Appendix Butterfly Beauties, Inc. Butterfly Farming in Costa Rica Executive Summary While the name may seem somewhat "flighty," butterfly farming is a serious business opportunity. The...
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...According to National Geographic monarch butterflies travel up to 3,000 miles each fall to their wintering site in central Mexico. In 2004, an estimated 550 million completed the winter migration, while in 2003 only 33 million arrived. Further, between 2012 and 2013, there was a 43.7 percent decrease in the area occupied by the butterflies in the winter sanctuaries, the decline has numerous reasons: climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss, agricultural use of pesticides and herbicides Monarch butterflies are known for the incredible mass migration that brings millions of them to California and Mexico each winter. North American monarchs are the only butterflies that make such a massive journey, the insects must begin this journey each fall ahead of cold weather, which will kill them if they tarry too long. Monarch butterflies reflect ecosystem health and biodiversity, they are pollinators which make them very important for plan reproduction, and ecosystem sustainability. During the journey north, monarchs produce four generations, and share habitat with small birds and animals which feed larger birds and animals. Monarch butterflies begin life as eggs and hatch as larvae that eat their eggshells and, subsequently, the milkweed plants on which they were placed, short after that the larvae become juicy, colorful caterpillars, then create a hard protective case around themselves as they enter the pupa stage. Although Monarch butterflies may well qualify as one of the most beautiful...
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...Inman-Roden Reading Assignment #1 Butterfly life history and temperature adaptations, dry open habitats select for increased fecundity and longevity Butterflies occupy many habitats from the tropics to the Artic with an extreme range of temperatures that affect their ability to deal with the environment. Body temperature is a crucial factor that affects reproductive performance. (Karlsson, Wiklund) Changes in temperature propose related performance curves can trigger a selective response in life history traits. This article explains the study of four types of butterflies and which environment they are most likely to reproduce in. They tested this idea by exploring how fecundity (fertility) and longevity are changed by different temperatures. They studied four types of saytrine butterflies, two were open landscape butterflies and two were classified as “woodland” butterflies. They tested to see which butterflies adapted to dry open landscapes as opposed to closed forest landscapes by keeping egg laying females in five different environments, temperatures ranging from 68 and 104 degrees. Two of the butterflies were tested in dry and hot environments and two were tested in shady environments. The open landscape group peaked at a higher temperature at 86 degrees and the group that was placed in a shady environment peaked at 77 degrees. The durability decreased with higher temperatures among all 4 butterflies. However the open landscape butterflies survived better in higher climates...
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...Date: | December 4, 2013 | Grade/Class/Subject: | Second grade Science | Unit/Theme: | Life Cycle of the Butterfly | | Content Standard(s): | “Strand 1: Inquiry Process”“Inquiry Process establishes the basis for students’ learning in science. Students use scientific processes: questioning, planning and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, and communicating results” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | “Concept 1”: “Observations, Questions, and Hypotheses”“Observe, ask questions, and make predictions” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | PO 1. “Formulate relevant questions about the properties of objects, organisms, and events in the environment.” (See M02-S2C1-01) (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013) | PO 2. “Predict the results of an investigation (e.g., in animal life cycles, phases of matter, the water cycle)” (Arizona Dept. of Education, 2013). | Key VocabularyLarva CaterpillarEgg ChrysalisPupa CycleButterfly live | Supplementary Materials * Butterfly Life Cycle poster * Book: “I am a Butterfly” by Stephen Swinburne * Printed butterfly work sheets * Power-point on butterfly life cycle * Paper * Pencil * Construction paper * The Children’s Butterfly Site * http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/faq | “SIOP Features” | “Preparation” | “Scaffolding”...
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...attributed to God’s plans or in the case of Dellarobia Turnbow finding the butterflies as “‘a miracle’” (Kingsolver 54). The third main ideology that is seen in...
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...embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.” -William Stafford With the rise of knowledge about endangered species and diminishing protected ecology, it is becoming essential to study and get involved with this very tragic trend in our environment. Butterflies are one of the many insects that require attention. Despite of their usefulness, conservation of butterflies in our country is seemingly neglected This research aims to focus in Atrophaneura semperi. A butterfly species, considered endemic in the Philippines. (backpackingphilippines.com/2008/10/lep…) Not only has my huge interest in butterflies led me to pursuing this topic but also a certain curiosity about this specific species and how widely spread it is in the Philippines and all over the world. I would like to discuss its importance, the reproductive cycle, and the protection programs offered for their specific case, as I go through the next chapters of this study. Data generated could be used for species monitoring, biogeography, conservation program and creation of database information of butterflies in the Philippines as economic development and climate change progresses. II. TAXONOMY AND NOMENCLATURE Some researchers theorize that butterflies most likely originated in the Cretaceous period when the continents...
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...outranks the other, and Joseph Church, a critic, points out that “If Danforth forgoes spirit for body, Owen does the reverse, giving up the body altogether… he seems to have too rigorously ignored or denied his body and now as a man he appears especially diminutive, ‘like a child’” (Church par. 4). Owen neglects his body throughout the story trying as hard as he can to reject the idea of brute force, and Hawthorne never necessarily praises or denounces him for that letting the reader decide how much of a sacrifice an artist should take and if Owen’s sacrifice was worth his final creation. Even as opposites, Robert visits Owen in the story bringing him an anvil as gift but it distresses Owen so much it causes him to accidently break his Butterfly causing him to go on a hiatus for a period of time, with Hawthorne explaining that “ideas, which grow up within the imagination and appear so lovely to it and of a value beyond whatever men call valuable, are exposed to be shattered and annihilated by contact with the practical.” (Hawthorne 5). The strength and logic of the world hunts down artists as Robert did to Owen, attacking their unique creativity as it must be up...
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...by (1972) Trina Paulos HOPE FOR THE FLOWERS Trina Paulos A tale…. Partly about life Partly about revolution And lots about hope For adults and others (including caterpillars who can read) Many thanks To everyone All over the world Who has helped me Believe in the butterfly. This is the tale Of a caterpillar Who has trouble Becoming what He really is. It is like myself – like us. Love Trina To the “more” of love – the real revolution And my father who believed in it. CHAPTER 1 Once upon a time A tiny striped caterpillar Burst from the egg Which had been home For so long. “Hello world,” he said. “It sure is bright out here in the sun.” “I’m hungry,” he thought and straightaway began to eat the leaf he was born on. And he ate another… and another….and another. And got bigger…and bigger….and bigger…. Until one day he stopped Eating and thought, “There must be more to life that just eating and getting bigger. “It’s getting dull.” So Stripe crawled down From the friendly tree Which had shaded and fed him. He was seeking more. There were all sorts of new things to find. Grass and dirt and holes and tiny bugs – each fascinated him. But nothing satisfied him. When he came across some other crawlers like himself he was especially excited. But they were so busy eating They had no time to talk – Just as Stripe had been. “They don’t know any more about life than I do," he sighed. Then one day Stripe saw some crawlers really crawling. He...
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