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Home / Kids and Teens / School Time / Science / Living Things / Animals / Invertebrates / Insects / Butterflies and Moths
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- Abc-kid.com - Monarch Butterfly - An extensive Monarch Butterfly picture archive and information page for kids.
www.abc-kid.com/monarch
- All About Butterflies - A comprehensive on-line book about butterflies.
www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterflies/allabout
- Amazon Morpho Butterfly - See color photographs and learn information about the habitat, enemies, and diet of this colorful butterfly.
www.animalsoftherainforest.com/amazonmorpho.htm
- Animal Facts: The Monarch Butterfly - Offers facts, photos, drawings, links, and a free printable coloring page.
www.kidzone.ws/animals/monarch_butterfly.htm
- Beal School's Exploring Butterflies in Kindergarten - An up-close look at the bodies and life cycles of butterflies. Includes photos, drawings, scientific terms with definitions, and students' reflections.
www.ci.shrewsbury.ma.us/Sps/Schools/Beal/Curriculum/butterfly/butterflies.html
- BillyBear4Kids.com ... Butterfly and Bugs - Photographs show the life cycle of a monarch butterfly. Also includes fact sheets, printable coloring pages, craft ideas, and online games.
www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/flutter-fun.html
- Butterflies - Basic information about all types of butterflies; includes information about the life span and life cycle of butterflies.
www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/butterflies.html
- Butterflies and Moths - Contains brief information about these creatures and lists some common foods that several species of them eat.
www.arandaps.act.edu.au/environment/activity/humus/buttrfly/biology.htm
- Butterflies at the Field Museum - Explains the basic characteristics of butterflies, tells about their habitats, and shows photos from the museum's collection.
www.fmnh.org/butterfly
- Butterflies of North America - A comprehensive list of butterflies that are commonly found in North America.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
- Butterfly Fun - Includes printouts, games, printable stationary, and facts.
www.primarygames.com/science/butterflies/butterflies.htm
- Butterfly Gardening - Step-by-step directions for creating a butterfly garden.
www.butterflyhouse.org/gardening.html
- Club Caterpillar - Features educational activities and games about caterpillars, butterflies, and moths.
www.milkweedcafe.com/ClubCathome.htm
- Flying Flowers - Butterfly gardening, raising butterflies and caterpillars. Special section for helping the kids with this project.
melanys.tripod.com
- Gypsy Moth in North America - History of introduction of the gypsy moth to New England, maps showing current locations, photos of the life cycle.
www.fs.fed.us/ne/morgantown/4557/gmoth
- Hawk Moth - Learn about the life span, habitat, diet, and enemies of this important pollinator for many plants in the rain forest.
www.animalsoftherainforest.com/hawkmoth.htm
- Jack Hulland Elementary - Butterflies On-Line - Watch an on-line metamorphosis and learn about the life-cycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly. Developed by Yukon Grade three classes complete with activities and teacher resources.
www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/jackhulland/projects/butterflies
- Mighty Morphing Monarchs - View interesting facts about the life cycle of a monarch.
www.muohio.edu/dragonfly/cycle/morphing.htmlx
- Monarch Conservation - A new way of tracking Monarch migration through isotopes, and a theory that Monarchs make their way to overwintering grounds by finding the thermals.
whyfiles.org/083isotope/index.html
- Monarch Watch - Dedicated to education, conservation, and research of the Monarch butterfly, features information about the life cycle, gardening instructions, migration and tagging, and curriculum guides.
www.monarchwatch.org
- Monarchs and Migration - Lists ways kids can investigate butterflies. Also includes photos and stories. From the Science Museum of Minnesota.
www.smm.org/sln/monarchs
- New Zealand Butterflies - Offers biology background of butterflies, gifts, watching guidelines, and types of butterflies found in New Zealand.
www.newzealandbutterflies.org.nz
- Owl Butterfly - Lists information about the wingspan, habitat, diet, and enemies of this solitary butterfly.
www.animalsoftherainforest.com/owlbutterfly.htm
- The Butterfly Site - Includes information on gardening, biology, breeding, and conservation. Also provides fun facts, activities, and pictures.
www.thebutterflysite.com
- The Butterfly Website - Extensive collection of butterfly information, including an atlas of butterflies, locations of butterfly gardens and houses, a photo gallery, stories, and information about obtaining grants to make a butterfly garden at your school.
butterflywebsite.com
- Where Do Butterflies Come From? - A simple hands-on look at the life cycle of butterflies.
www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html
- Woolly Bear Caterpillar - Kids and Teens can learn the habitat, description, and range of the Wooly Bear Catepillar and the Woolly Bear Catepillar moth.
www.enature.com/guides/show_species_fg.asp?beautyID=7859&recsFound=2&curPos=1&curGroup=Butterflies&screenType=normal&guideID=ng&recNum=BU0165&searchType=&color=&size=&shape=&leafShape=&fruit=&habitat=&range=&useFreeText=true&freeText=woolly+bear
- Zebra Butterfly - Creature profile containing information about the habitat, diet, wingspan, and enemies.
www.animalsoftherainforest.com/zebrabutterfly.htm
- Butterflies: On The Wings Of Freedom (new) - Information about butterflies for students, including high speed shooting and scanning electron microscope pictures, articles about butterflies at school, conservation, bionics, butterfly gardening, and butterfly legends
library.thinkquest.org/C002251/index2.shtml
- The Children's Butterfly Site - Kids can learn all about butterflies and moths at this site. It includes a coloring page with the life cycle of the Monarch, and a gallery of pictures.
www.mesc.nbs.gov/resources/education/butterfly/bfly_intro.asp
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