Butterflies

Chrysalis Project Art 3 & 4

• Parts of the Butterfly

• Birth of the Butterfly

• Life Cycles

• Where They Live

Butterfly Facts!• Butterflies are flying insects with large scaly wings.

• They have 6 jointed legs, 3 body parts, 2 antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton.

• The butterfly’s body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.

• It has FOUR wings.

Different Kinds of Butterflies

• Butterflies don’t eat- they ONLY DRINK!

• They drink from flowers, rotten fruit, and even sweat or animal waste!

Eating Habits

• Some butterflies are even camouflaged

to look like leaves!

• Butterflies close their wings when it’s not sunny out.

Some butterflies such as the owl butterflies have large

eye spots that can make them look scary to frighten

predators away.

• The Monarch caterpillar feeds on

milkweed so that the adult butterfly

will be poisonous to birds.

Parts of the Butterfly

Butterflies have scales, just like a fish! They have a long tubular tongue,smell with their antennae, and taste with their feet!

Birth of the Butterfly The Cocoon

I found a cocoonThat a caterpillar made,

Fastened to a leafHanging in the shade.He barely had roomTo wiggle or wag,Like me zipped up

In my sleeping bag. I looked each timeThat I passed his way,But he never budged

Until just today.Something happened!

He wagged and wiggledAnd then climbed outAnd carefully jiggled

Small wet wingsThat grew as they dried.He'd turned to a butterfly

Inside!

Painted Lady ButterflyVanessa cardui

Monarch ButterflyDanaus plexippusTiger LongwingHeliconius hecale

Great Mormon SwallowtailPapilio memnon

Owl ButterflyCaligo spp.

Common Wood NymphCercyonis pegala

Julia LongwingDryas julia

Buckeye ButterflyJunonia coenia

Life Cycles There are four stages in a butterfly’s life cycle.

1) Egg

2) Caterpillar (Larva)

3) Pupa (Chrysalis)

4) Adult

• After butterflies mate, they lay their eggs, usually on a plant that can feed the caterpillars when they hatch. Caterpillars eat and eat until they are too big for their skin. Then they shed it for new skin. They do this 4-6 times as they grow up.

• Caterpillars transform into butterflies in the pupa stage. The pupa is called a chrysalis. Adult butterflies do best when they are warm, so some migrate to warmer places during the cold winter months.

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Assignment Requirements1.  Design a magazine cover with one or more stages of the butterfly:  Egg •  Caterpillar  •  Chrysalis •  Butterfly

2.  Use a media that will compliment your piece (watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic paint, gel pen, pen and ink, chalk pastel, collage and/or Photoshop).

3.  Consider the layout and composition of your subject matter as a magazine cover.

4.  Make sure your subject matter is well designed, beautifully crafted and that you have complete work of art.

5. Include a focal point related to the Chrysalis and make sure your work is unified.

Past McQueen Covers

Salvador Dali Butterflies

Dali

Vladimir Kush Paintings