Butterfly Body Parts
Activity 4 - Butterfly senses
Do you know which parts of its body a butterfly uses to taste, smell and eat? You might be in for a surprise! Discuss it with your partner and make a hypothesis. Visit the following web sites to see if you can find it out. View the following pages to see an enlarged images of a butterfly's antennae and legs, a butterfly's proboscis and of a butterfly sipping nectar.The butterfly's antennae and proboscis
Amazing bodiesClose-up of butterfly antennae and legsEnlarged image of a butterfly showing its eyes, proboscis and antennaeMake up a set of five true or false questions or multiple choice questions that you could ask your classmates about the parts of a butterfly to find out how much they know.Enlarged image showing a butterfly's eye and curled up proboscis (labelled as galea)
An example of a true or false question might be:
An example of a multiple choice question might be:
- A butterfly tastes with its feet. (True or false?)
Test your classmates on your quiz and see how they score.Butterflies have
- four legs
- six legs
- eight legs
