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- The world of a butterfly
- The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of nature's most amazing feats. These photographs show the development of an eastern black swallowtail butterfly from egg to larva to chrysalis to adult.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
- Number combinations
- Students will use green and blue craft pom-poms to explore number combinations to five.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Beth Deyton.
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Second larval instar
- The larva clings to the stem of a parsley plant. Although butterfly and moth caterpillars appear to have many legs, as insects, they have only six true legs -- visible here just behind the larva's head.
- Format: image
- Life cycle of painted lady butterflies
- Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Anne Allen.
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- The larva on a flowering parsley plant.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- Thirteen days out of the egg, the larva is growing rapidly.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- Here, the larva's maturing structure is visible. The larva is now 10 days out of the egg.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- Fourteen days out of the egg, the larva leaves its food source in search of a place to pupate (become a chrysalis).
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instage
- As it grows, the larva is able to move easily from plant to plant in search of more food, as it does here.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: First larval instar
- The first larval instar (first stage of the caterpillar) is shown here a day after hatching.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva, first instar, day 1 after hatching
- The first larval instar, or stage of the caterpillar, looks nothing like the later stages.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Second larval instar
- The second larval instar, or stage of the caterpillar, develops the familiar stripes and markings. This larva is seven days out of the egg.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Forming a chrysalis
- The larva attaches itself by a pair of threads to the underside of a stick, branch, or leaf, and assumes a C-shape as it prepares to form a chrysalis.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Egg, day 7
- On the seventh day after the egg is laid, the butterfly larva is visible inside the egg.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Larva emerging from egg, day 7
- The butterfly larva (caterpillar) emerges from the egg about seven days after the egg was laid.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- In its third instar (growth stage), the eastern black swallowtail caterpillar takes on its familiar black and green stripes and yellow eye spots.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eastern black swallowtail butterfly: Third larval instar
- Closeup of the head of the eastern black swallowtail larva, a day before entering its pupal stage. As a defense mechanism, the red markings and yellow "horns" on its head become more prominent when the larva is threatened.
- Format: image/photograph
- Butterfly metamorphosis
- This is an integrated lesson which is introduced using the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Butterfly metamorphosis is explored through art, math, and writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Laura Byers.
- Butterfly cycle
- Students will understand the life cycle of the butterfly and create various art activities that would model metamorphosis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Becky Woolard.
- Inching through oral language for ESOL students
- This lesson will use the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to help the student use clear and precise language to demonstrate comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Angela Goldberg.
