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Butterflies, Moths, and Their Babies
A Few Samples
Monarch EggPhoto from easttennesseewildflowers.com
Cabbage White Butterfly Egg
Photo from images.ca
Cabbage White Butterfly ChrysalisPhoto from davesgarden.com
Black Swallowtail Butterfly Egg
Photo from learnnc.org
Black Swallowtail ChrysalisPhoto from carolinabutterflysociety.org
Milkweed Tussock MothPhotos from mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu
Milkweed Tussock Moth Eggs
Photo from gazettenet.com
Milkweed Tussock Moth Cocoon
Photo from bugguide.net
Milkweed Tussock MothPhoto from bugguide.
net
Virginia Tiger Moth CocoonPhoto from commons.wikimedia.org
Virginia Tiger MothPhoto by tompawlesh.smugmug.
com
Where do the mother butterflies and moths lay their eggs? How big are the caterpillars when they hatch? What do the caterpillars eat? What do the caterpillars do when they get big? What comes out of the chrysalis or cocoon when it opens? What do we call all the stages from egg to adult?
Butterflies, Moths, and Their Babies…
…make a complete life cycle!
Bibliography
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Grissel, Eric. Insects and Gardens, In Pursuit of a Garden Ecology.
Portland: Timber Press, 2001.
Leopold, Donald. Native Plants of the Northeast, A Guide for Gardening and Conservation. Portland: Timber Press, 2005.
Mikula, Rick. Garden Butterflies of North America. Minocqua, Wisconsin: Willow Creek Press,1997.
Stokes, Donald and Lillian, and Williams, Ernest. The Butterfly Book, New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1991.
Tallamy, Douglas W. Bringing Nature Home, Portland: Timber Press,
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Wagner, David L. Caterpillars of Eastern North America, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Butterflies, Moths, and Their Babies ~ A Few Samples
Slideshow, photos, except where otherwise stated, and flowers by Anne Keddy.
April 2012