Whether you are a kid or a kid at heart, you’ll love the fun things you can do when learning about butterflies!
Did you know that dragonflies capture and eat butterflies? Here is a picture of all that is left of an Eastern Tailed-Blue after a hungry dragonfly devoured it.
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Carter wrote on January 16, 2008
There are a lot of theories about the origin of the word Butterfly, but the one that makes the most sense to me is that a very common butterfly in Great Britain (perhaps the Cabbage White?) had a slightly yellowish, almost buttery look to it. The species was evidently so common that people remarked that they would swarm like flies. You can see how this all added up…
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Can you tell my first grade class why we call these beautiful creatures butterflies, and not flutterbys?
Thank you very much!