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Butterfly Metamorphosis A Butterfly For Kids - How to Raise a Live Butterfly With Your Kids (Butterflies Are Easy and Fun!) By Kelly L Ballard Kids love butterflies. Attracting a butterfly for kids to raise is a rewarding experience for all involved. The life stages of a butterfly include the butterfly egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult butterfly and by attracting butterflies to your yard you can watch each of these stages in your home. Witnessing the butterfly metamorphosis is fascinating for both kids and adults and it is a surprisingly easy, educational and especially fun activity. Here are the simple steps you can take with your kids to attract butterflies: 1.) First you need a few nectar plants to attract the butterflies to your yard. I recommend 2-3 Lantana Camara plants, and 3 or more Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) plants to start with. These plants will be attractive to several species of butterflies including Monarch butterflies and Black Swallowtails (A...

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Butterfly Coloring Pages To Print Butterflies come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and Butterfly Coloring Pages provide a means to inspire children to expand their creative talents. Butterflies are easily colored, and there are unlimited combinations of colors that many young children can use on these stunning creatures. Butterfly Coloring Pages To Print

Helping Monarch Butterflies (Conservation) Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed, and caterpillars only eat milkweed. But humans don’t seem to like milkweed very much and are cutting it down for various reasons. Sometimes humans cut down milkweed in order to build houses, buildings and streets. Sometimes the milkweed is cut down when trees are removed to harvest the wood. In recent years there have been a lot of wildfires that have destroyed a lot of milkweed. Humans cut milkweed down in their own yards because it doesn’t smell very good or they think it is a weed. But these humans don’t realize that monarch butterflies need the milkweed in order to survive, and the monarch butterfly population is dwindling. The humans who do realize how much the monarch butterfly population is in danger because of the disappearing milkweed are doing something about it, and you can, too. These people are called conservationists. What they do is purchase some land or even set aside a piece...

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Monarch Butterflies If you were asked to name a type of butterfly , what picture and name would come to mind? Of the most common varieties in North America the Monark Butterfly awareness impact is pretty high. They are big (up to 4 inch wingspan), awesome bright orange and black with white spots, and famous for their annual Monarch Butterfly migration. What is the only insect that doesn't cause you to hide inside when they are swarming your neighborhood? Who helps the bees and hummingbirds pollinate the flowers .... Monarch Butterflies. While many species of birds migrate during seasonal periods, researchers believe that the Monark Butterfly is the only actual “migratory” insect. Other butterflies, moths, and insects may be seen in large numbers making a big trip, but almost always they are in search of food, not to escape climatic conditions. The winter monarch migration takes millions of Monarch Butterflies thousands of miles, from Canada and northern portions of the United St...