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Today in our house we were wondering about butterflies. This summer in Mongolia there have been SO many butterflies! We wondered why there were so many more this year? And most of all we realised we don't actually know that much about butterflies, so we decided to investigate, and this is what we found!
Here are some of our Favourite Butterfly Facts we learnt when investigating with SciShowKids and National Geographic Kids.
Here are some of our Favourite Butterfly Facts we learnt when investigating with SciShowKids and National Geographic Kids.
Rosaleen - I learnt that caterpillars have 4 or 5 (exo) skeletons and each time one gets too tight they climb out of it and grow a new one.
Martha - I liked learning that their wings are wet and crinkly when they come out of the chrysalis.
Frank - I liked that too.
Nuri - Caterpillars eat a lot, so do butterflies and butterflies taste their food through their feet!
Duri - I like how the caterpillars turn into cocoons.
Nuri - I learnt that they can fly thousands of miles!
Rosaleen - I learnt that sometimes their journeys are so long that they can't all make it through the way home again, sometimes on the grandchildren of the butterflies get to come home.
Martha - I liked that the monarch butterflies come back to the same tree as their grandparents went to.
Duri - I like the monarch butterflies, they are very beautiful.
Martha - I liked learning that when moths are resting their wings are spread out flat but when butterflies rest they have their wings up.
Nuri - Moths have fluffy antannae and coccoons instead of a chrysalis, and they can make silk for their coccoon.
Rosaleen - I learnt that the chrysalis of a butterfly is hard and looks different to a moth's cocoon which is made of fluffy silk.
Oh No! Are Monarch Butterflies Endangered?
Oh No! Are Monarch Butterflies Endangered?
Are Monarch Butterflies Disappearing? Are They Endangered?
Well, according to this video from 2015, they might be. What is the latest news from 2021? Are Monarach Butterflies still endangered? We've seen so many in Mongolia this year, it doesn't seem so... we will have to investigate to find out more!
Martha - I found out that in 2015 were only 35 million monarch butterflies left but that there used to be over 1 billion of them in the 1990s.
Butterflies we've learnt are really important pollinators - but how do they do this? And how are they similar to or different from other insects? We took a look at these videos to find out more...
Stories & Animations
Butterfly Art
This one is a liiiiittttttle bit tricky - will you try it?
This one is a bit easier :)
How Can We Help Butterflies to Thrive and Not Become Endangered?
How Can We Help Butterflies to Thrive and Not Become Endangered?
Here's what we learnt about helping butterlies:
Buy food from farms or producers that support organic farming and don't use chemicals taht are harmful to the butterflies by killing off milk weed - their food supply.
Plant lots of flowers that butterflies and caterpillars like!
Learn about butterflies and help our family and friends to know more about them too.
And this organisation www.saveourmonarchs.org has lots more ideas :)
And here are a few more lovely ideas - please take a look :)
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