Butterfly Life Cycle

Conclusion - Things to think about and things to do

Now that you have finished this learning quest, you will probably understand a lot more about the lifecycle of butterflies than you did before. What you may not have realised though, is that some butterflies, both in Australia and other parts of the world are becoming rare and endangered.

Visit the South Australian Museum's butterfly website called Where have all the butterflies gone and find out why some butterflies in Australia are becoming rare.
http://samuseum.sa.gov.au/butterflies/index.htm

Visit the South Australian Museum's Butterfly Watch website and discover how you can help scientists find out more about our local butterflies by recording which plants the adult butterflies are feeding on and where butterfly colonies exist.
http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&id=1257

See some beautiful photos and find out more about butterflies in South Australia and which ones are rare or endangered by visiting the South Australian Butterflies site at:
http://www.chariot.net.au/~rgrund/index.htm

Visit Museum Victoria's Victorian Butterflies database, which  includes about 40,000 records. It contains photos and information about butterflies from all over Victoria.
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/bioinformatics/butter/index.htm

Find out some more information about butterflies by reading this easy-to-read online book about butterflies! Click the arrows at the bottom of the screen to turn the pages!http://www.isaveatree.com/Menus/Demobooks/Butterflies_b_Kell.html

Find out more about the butterfly life cycle at:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterflies/lifecycle/
Click on to the egg, the larva (caterpillar) the pupa and the adult

Find answers to your questions about butterflies; see some photos and find out about the butterfly life cycle at the Children's Butterfly Site, at:
http://bsi.montana.edu/web/kidsbutterfly/

Click on each section of the timeline to view images and information about the butterfly lifecycle.
http://www.angelawessling.com/software2006/butterfly_lifecycle.html

For more information on the Monarch butterfly life cycle, check out the Four Stages of Butterfly Metamorphosis on this site.
http://www.ansp.org/museum/butterflies/life_cycle.php

Find out more information about the Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly from this interactive movie with spoken text. Click on to each stage.
http://www.johnuhles.com/butterfly/butterfly.html


© 2000 - 2007 Jackie Miers

April, 2007