Friday 27 September 2019

Butterfly Report

Butterflies by Karmi

Butterflies are living because they fly, eat, grow and move . Butterflies are invertebrate insects they don’t have a backbone or spine. Butterflies are solitary insects they don’t live in colonies like ants or bees .

 Habitat
 Butterflies live in forests as well as in our own backyards. We must plant flowers so the butterflies drink nectar .

 Features
 The butterfly has a long coiled tongue called the proboscis . It is a hollow tube it works like a Drinking straw to suck up nectar . It has spots on its wings that look like eyes to fright birds .

 Food
 Most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers. And they sleep at night time not at day time.

 Predators
 The butterfly predator is cats ,rats , frogs , spiders and dogs .