Butterflies & Moths

Compound eyes allow butterflies and moths to

• see long distances

• see in the dark

• see all around themselves

What is the biggest difference between butterflies and moths at the pupal stage?

• Butterflies make a hard case

• Moths appear dead from the outside

• Moths break out of their cases when fully formed

• Butterflies slowly change into adults

Choosing either moths or butterflies turn 3 facts from this table into complete sentences.

You could start a sentence with:

Butterflies are...

Moths have....

Why can't butterflies and moths fly straight after becoming an adult?

• Wings are to small

• Wings are not formed

• Need to be taught by a mother

• Wings are damp and crumpled

What is an invertebrate?

• an animal that forms cocoons

• animal with compound eyes

• animal that doesn't have a backbone

• an animal that sleeps in the day and active in the night

Which is true of a butterfly?

• They don't eat

• They feed from all flowers

• They have bad smell

• They only feed from one type of flower

Molting means to

• move from one place to the other.

• mix plants together.

• shed skin.

A cocoon is

• how a caterpiller gets born

• something in trees

• legs of a butterfly

• a case around the pupa usually made of silk.

Reorder the life cycle for a caterpillar

• Butterfly lays an egg

• egg hatches and caterpillar comes out

• pupal stage begins and a chrysalis is formed

• caterpillar starts to molt

• caterpillar eats a lot

Label the parts of a moth

a

b

c

d

e

antenna

abdomen

thorax

wing

head