Caterpillar cartoon
Posted on June 18, 2010 with No Comments
Here’s a funny little cartoon i came upon. A caterpillar will transform into a butterfly with in a few days!
Tags: butterfly, caterpillar
Category: Butterflies
Posted on June 18, 2010 with No Comments
Here’s a funny little cartoon i came upon. A caterpillar will transform into a butterfly with in a few days!
Tags: butterfly, caterpillar
Category: Butterflies
Posted on June 15, 2010 with 1 Comment
Yesterday, the top story from the NY Times was about the study behind why caterpillars and butterflies disguise themselves as snakes. From the sky and ground, when predators look at caterpillars, the first things they see are snake eyes glaring at them. Since the predators are scared off most times, the camouflage is a great defense mechanism for caterpillars and butterflies. It is reported that each day a bird will see tens to hundreds of caterpillars that they mistaken for snakes.
A scientist, by the name of Dr. Janzen, studied specifically which caterpillars formed into which butterflies. He studied in the rainforest in Costa Rice for 32 years to gather information. In that time, he studied over 450,000 caterpillars! Still till this day there are researchers in Costa Rica and the findings they discover are remarkable. Each caterpillar that they find is sampled to see the genetic coding and some caterpillars can have as many as 11 different ancestors! Today, many researchers are still trying to perfect the answer to “Why does this small caterpillar look like a snake on one end?”
Tags: Butterflies, butterfly, caterpillars, rainforest, snake
Category: Butterflies, Crawling Insects, Summer Pests
Posted on June 7, 2010 with No Comments
Over the weekend the NY Post posted a small article about how many people feel this year, in New Jersey, there will be a great number of butterflies to emerge. A member of the Butterfly Association states that it is a very early year and slowly residents will see a large population of butterflies flying around. Since there has been a warm April many people feel this will initiate butterflies to appear earlier.
Butterflies are the most liked insect in the US. They do not sting or bite, they are bright colors, and they are not a house hold pest. There are four stages to a butterfly’s life; the egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult butterfly. Butterflies are very beneficial to the environment because they spread nectar to flowers and plants so they can reproduce. They are also at the bottom of the food chain, which is bad for them but good for their predators. Butterflies have beautiful wings that serve as a defense mechanism to scary off predators. When you see butterflies in the air you know summers just around the corner!
Category: Butterflies