Good morning, kids!

1) Would you like to know what butterflies eat? Would you really believe that some butterflies eat the hair of animals???

Click on the "a butterfly's workaday world" link below and read the paragraph about "food".

Take out a white paper and a line paper and write down a list with the food that butterflies like. The titel of your list is "Food for Butterflies"

2) Butterflies have got lots of enemies. Would you believe that some insects lay their eggs into butterfly caterpillars???

Click on the "a butterfly's workaday world" link below and scroll to "predators". Read the text, take a new white paper, and make a list with the enemies of butterflies. The title is "Predators of Butterflies"

3) How do butterflies try to protect from their enemies? Click on the "a butterfly's workaday world" link below and scroll to "means of protection". Read the text and find out how butterflies try to protect themselves from their enemies. Give some examples. Use the headline: "Means of Protection".

If the above link does not open try the "butterfly defense" link below.

Do you have an email address? Click on the link "a butterfly email postcard to a friend" and send a card with butterfly photo to a friend or to your family!

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