Butterfly Appearance
Activity 3 - Male and female differences
Do you know how to tell the difference between the male and female monarch butterfly just by looking at their wings? Talk it over with your partner.
Visit the following web site to see if your ideas were correct.Male and female differencesNow visit the next web site to see if you can notice the differences.Male or female?In some species of butterflies the males and females are quite different. Visit the following web site to see the differences.Different males and femalesChoose either the Monarch, the Morpho, the Common Brown, the Orange Palm-dart, the Amaryllis Azure, the Caper White, or the Swallowtail butterflies that you have seen and draw both the male and female butterflies of this species.Common Brown - the image of the male is on the left and the female is on the right
Orange Palm-dart butterfly - the upperside and underside of a male and the upperside of a female
Amaryllis Azure butterfly - the images on the left hand side of the page are the males and those on the right are the females. The blue is the upperside and the brown is the underside of the butterflies
Caper White butterfly - the images on the top are of the upperside and underside of the male and those on the bottom are of the upperside and underside of the female
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