#butterfly egg

[naturalist-journal]

[emmaklee]

[billionneuronscurious]

A Silver Egg of a Butterfly.

A Beautiful Silver Egg of a Butterfly on a flower of the Trichodesma sp., as if a piece of silver jewellery. Isn't it interesting how nature's creatures manage to produce the colours that they do, including the colours which shine and sparkle. This is nature's jewellery. Nature is a bountiful jewellery box.

[belfastroadster]

Egg of the orange-tip butterfly on a garlic mustard flower at WWT Castle Espie.

[nanonaturalist]

A Dilemma

I am but one person with too little time and too many hyperfixations and even though my yard is actually kinda small it ends up taking on a life of its own because hey let nature do its thing, right? What’s the worst that could happen?

*sigh*

So, right now, the very back of my yard is a mini-forest of hackberry, elm, and soapberry saplings about chest high (so thick you can’t walk through them without cutting them down, it’s a situation). Behind those, there’s this tangled mass of common hedge parsley and catchweed bedstraw. Both of these plants are terrible. The catchweed is essentially nature’s velcro and it tears into your skin as a bonus. The parsley is fine until is goes to seed—I have clothes I can’t wear until I sit down for a few hours and pick all the burr-covered parsley seeds off them. No, they don’t come off in the wash.

The back of the yard is the worst, but the catchweed and the parsley are all over my entire yard (along with the invasive rescue brome grass I can’t get rid of). I’ve been picking as much of it as I can every time I go outside. I want to destroy ALL OF IT!!!

Except... uh... today while I was watering my trees... uh...

Sorry for the grainy quality, I was far away. But... uh... Swallowtail Butterfly host plants include... plants in the... carrot family...

You know, like... parsley? She laid several eggs while I watched, and I found three total. I know there’s gotta be more. Well, I guess that’s one host plant I’m not going to run out of... and I’ve never raised swallowtails before!!!

So I put the plants with the eggs inside, and went back to watering. Okay, maybe I don’t hate parsely as much. But I still hate catchweed. GRRR!!!

Oh! Hello Mexican Honey Wasp friend! What are you doing over here?

Wait... are you...

Nectaring on...

Catchweed?!

I watched this wasp, and... yes. The only flowers that seemed to interest her were these tiny catchweed flowers.

Well. I guess I’m not pulling out all of the parsley and catchweed. As if I’d have been able to in the first place.

Just goes to show how even “weeds” are essential components of any ecosystem. My current situation is just a gross imbalance of three particular species.

March 18, 2019

[billionneuronscurious]

Egg of a Nymphalidae Familly Butterfly.

[votary]

A Butterfly and a Buttercup

A butterfly belongs to the Animal Kingdom. A buttercup belongs to the Plant Kingdom. The butterfly moves through the air. The buttercup is rooted in the ground. They seem very different from each other. But are they?

Butterflies and most other animals come from eggs. And so do buttercups and most plants! A plant's egg is hidden inside a seed. The inside of a plant egg grows into a tiny plant a store of food. The inside of a butterfly egg grows into a tiny, curled-up caterpillar and a store of food.

A caterpillar hatches from an egg and begins to eat. A buttercup sprouts from a seed and begins to make food for itself. Both the caterpilar and the buttercup must have food, water, and air to live. So must all plants and animals.

A caterpillar grows. So does a buttercup. The caterpillar changes into a brightly colored butterfly. The buttercup bursts out with bright little flowers. When these things happen, both the butterfly and the buttercup have reached an important part of their lives. The butterfly will mate and lay eggs. The buttercup flowers will grow seeds. The butterfly eggs will become new little caterpillars. And the buttercup seeds will become new little buttercup plants.

So a butterfly and a buttercup aren't so different after all. Plants and animals both have the same needs and they both do many of the same things. They are both living creatures, each with its own way of life.

Preschool:

Butterfly Life Cycle Song

K-2nd Grade:

Germination Lesson Plan EASY HOW SEEDS ARE MADE

Plant Life Cycle BBC Video

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Lesson Plan

Buttercup Information

5th Grade:

Birth and Growth of an Insect Britanica Kids Article

[mahbobolhasanshanto]

Butterfly Life Cycle- Caterpillar to Butterfly Metamorphosis:

Butterfly Life Cycle- Caterpillar to Butterfly Metamorphosis - Fixing Bee

The butterfly life cycle is a complex process. Butterflies have to pass through a few steps to complete the butterfly's life cycle. Fixingbe

To know about the butterfly life cycle I observed a butterfly cycle. The butterfly lifespan goes through four stages: egg, larva, pupa, and finally the adult butterfly. There are various species of butterflies around the world. Different species take different periods to complete the life cycle. Lime swallowtail butterfly takes approximately nine to fifteen days to become an adult butterfly. But there are also some butterflies that need one month to a whole year to turns into an adult butterflies.

Butterfly Matings:

Butterfly find out their mates according to their color and the internal sound. As well as pheromone hormone also helps to find out. Some male butterflies come close to the female butterflies and dance in order to attract them. This stage is called courtship. If the male butterfly manages to attract them then the female butterfly allows the male to go on matting.

The First Stage: (Egg Laying)-

The life cycle of a butterfly starts with an egg. The female butterfly lays eggs on a leaf. Butterflies don’t lay their eggs on random obstacles or random leaves. They have their own host plants where they lay eggs and the butterfly cycle completes on this plant from egg to adult. Their eggs are very small in size and that it is barely seen. The shapes of eggs are different, some species of butterfly give oval shape eggs, some give spherical, or cylindrical. If the egg gets dry inside it would harmful to the caterpillar. So, keep the egg wet butterfly eggs are surrounded by a layer which is called “Chorion”. This chorion layer is surrounded by a thin layer of wax. This layer keeps the egg wet. The egg has two stages younger stage and the older stage. Butterfly life cycle is pretty interesting.

The Second Stage: (Caterpillar Phase)-

It takes 2 or 3 days to hatch a butterfly egg. After hatching from the egg the young caterpillar eats its own mature egg. The caterpillar eats a lot. They are called the eating machine and they eat their host plant’s leaf. They eat frequently and grow quickly. The metamorphosis of a caterpillar happens step by step. Each development is called an instar.

The Third Stage: (Pupa/Chrysalis)-

At this stage, the caterpillar starts preparing for the pupa. Caterpillar stops eating at this stage. This process doesn’t last a long time. The caterpillar produces silk quickly and turns into a pupa.

The Fourth Stage: (Adult Butterfly)-

The adult butterfly is the final stage of a butterfly’s life cycle. If you ever observe a butterfly’s life cycle then you will come to know that the butterfly wings remain wet and wrinkled when they emerge from the chrysalis. It needs a few moments to make the wings hard and dry before they can fly. They can only fly when the wings become dry. This is how a butterfly life cycle continues.

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