Butterflies of Lenoir County

Students in Mrs. Arthur’s first grade class of 2011-12, studied butterflies, raised butterflies, researched butterflies from Lenoir County using the Super 3 Research Model, created their own slide about their butterfly and illustrated their writing.

They live in yards, gardens, parks, meadows, grassy places, swamps, fields, pastures. The colors of the butterfly are white red and black. They drink nectar. Butterflies can fly. They drink nectar with their tongue. They have wings. I got this information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Red Admiral

By: Anna

My butterfly can live in yards, parks, and swamps. It eats the tiny flower called the honeysuckle. Their colors are black and white. I found my information from www.butterfiesandmoths.org.

Spicebush Swallowtail

By: Anthony

They live in gardens yards and parks. My butterfly eats leaves from trees. My butterfly is a green butterfly. The size of my butterfly is 2 ¼ inches to 3 1/8 inches long. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Cloudless Sulphur

By: Bella

The name of my butterfly is the Cabbage White. They live in yards, gardens and parks. They drink nectar from mustard, dandelion and red clover. My butterfly size is 1 3/4-2 1/4 inches. The color of my butterfly is yellow, gray and green. The website of my butterfly is www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Cabbage White

By: Breanna N.

They live in wooded area. They eat rotting fruit. The website I used was www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Question Mark

By: Colin

The colors of my butterfly are red, green, orange, blue and black. Butterflies can fly. Butterflies can drink nectar. Butterflies can sleep. I found my information from www.butterfliesmoths.org.

Viceroy

By: Cortayvis

My butterfly is white, black, and orange. It’s name is Gulf Fritillary. It lives in gardens and open fields. It lives in Lenoir County. They drink nectar from lantana. I got my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Gulf Fritillary

By: Courtney

Carolina Satyr lives in woodland and the butterfly color is gray. I like when they fly.

Carolina Satyr

By: Dasir

My butterfly’s colors are brown, golden and white. There are 1,000’s of butterfly’s. My butterfly drinks nectar from button bush, milkweed, pea, blazing star, thistles and red clover. The size of my butterfly’s it is 1 3/4 to 2 5/8 inches. My butterfly’s habitat can be open woods, foothills, streams and prairie waterways. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Silver-spotted Skipper

By: Duprell C.

My butterfly’s name is Pearl Crescent. My butterfly lives in pastures. My butterfly eats nectar from a flower. My butterfly’s size is 1 1/4-1 3/4 inches. My butterfly’s colors are black and orange. I found the information from www.butterfliesmoths.org.

Pearl Crescent

By: Gerardo

My butterfly is mostly yellow, brown and black. Little yellow lives in dry open areas. My butterfly size is 11/4-inches (3.2-4.4 cm). It eats nectar from aster and golden rods. The information came from www.butterflies.org.

Little Yellow

By: Jacob H.

They live in yards, gardens, and parks. They eat nectar from many different flowers. The size of my butterfly is 2 ¼ inches to 4 3/8 inches long. The color of the butterfly is green. The website I went to get my information from is www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Cloudless Sulphur

By: Jacob S.

My butterfly’s name is the American Lady. It lives in parks and drinks nectar from flowers.They can be 3 ¼ inches to 3 5/8 inches long. The American lady is red, black, white and gray. I found my information at www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

American Lady

By: Jakob H.

The name is Monarch. The Monarch lives in fields, weedy areas and roadsides. The Monarch eats nectar from all milk weeds. The colors of the Monarch are orange, black and white. The size of the Monarch is 3 3/8 – 4 7/8 inches. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Monarch

By: Jenna

The colors of my butterfly are black dots with dark zigzag lines. The habitat of my butterfly is gardens, streams, and valleys. The butterflies drink nectar. Butterflies can fly so high. Birds can’t eat butterflies. They are 1 inch to 1 1/8 inches long. I found my information from the www.butterfliesmoths.org.

Summer Azure

By: Julia

My butterfly lives in gardens, swaps marshes, mountains, woods, parks and even in the woodlands too! The colors of my butterfly is brownish orange with dark spots. It has one dark spot at the center edge of each wing. The size of my butterfly is 1 ¾ to 2 ½ inches. It eats rotting fruit and tree sap.

I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Eastern Comma

By: Kacey

My butterfly lives in open pine woods. It eats nectar from a great variety of flowers. The butterfly's size is 1 ¼-1 ¾ inches. The butterfly is black and orange. I got the information from www.butterfliesmoths.org.

Pearl Crescent

By: Makayla

The size of my butterfly is 11/4-1 ½ inches. The color of my butterfly is gold and black spot . My butterfly eat sneezeweed. My butterfly habitat is yards, meadows, and fields. I found my information from www.butterfiesandmoths.org.

Fiery Skipper

By: Michael

My butterfly lives in gardens. My butterfly eats nectar from shepherds needle. My butterfly is small. My butterfly is brown, black and yellow. It lives in Lenoir County. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Sleepy Orange

By: Natalie

My butterfly’s habitat is wet woods and broad leaves. It drinks nectar from pepper bush. The colors are orange, black, and yellow. The sizes are 1-2 inches. The web site where I found my information is www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Palamedes Swallowtail

By: Ronaldo

The name of my butterfly is the Common Buckeye. It lives in a park and the garden. It eats a different kind of flowers like gum weed. My butterfly size is 5/8 to ¾ inches long. The colors are brown and orange. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Common Buckeye

By: Sanaa O.

My butterfly is cool because it has two different dots. They have antennas. It eats nectar from flowers like sneeze wood and milkweed. I found my information at www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Orange Sulphur

By: Seth

The Red banded Hairstreak eats the nectar of the flowers called sunflower, sweet pepper bush and wild cherry. It lives in the coastal hammocks. Its wing span is 7/8 - 1 ¼ inches. The colors of my butterfly are grayish and reddish. I found this information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Red banded Hairstreak

By: Shriya

Easter Tiger Swallowtail live in deciduous broadleaf woods, forest edge, rivers valleys, parks, and suburbs. They eat nectar from Wild Cherries, Lilac, Milkweed, and Joe-Pye. The size of my butterfly is 2 1/2- 4 1/ 2 inches (6.2-11.4cm.) The color of my butterfly is yellow, dark stripes black, blue, and red. I found my information from www.butterfliesandmoths.org.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

By: Tony