Question

iv. What did the butterfly sip?
v. Where did the caterpillar crawl?
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Answer 1

Answer:

For this project, you will need to find a caterpillar.

It may not be as hard as you think.

That’s because butterflies lay their eggs on the plants that their caterpillars like to eat, which are called host plants.

Some common host plants for butterfly and moth caterpillars are alfalfa, aster, broccoli, cabbage, clover, dill, milkweed, parsley, snapdragon, and sunflower.

Trees that are hosts to caterpillars include birch, chokecherry and cherry, cottonwood, elm, oak, and willow.

(Here is a list of some common butterflies and their host plants.)

Ask an adult to help you figure out which of those plants you have in your yard or someplace near your home where you could go to look for caterpillars.

What You Need:

clear plastic container (this jar will work well, or you could use something smaller)

piece of cheesecloth

rubber band that fits around the opening of the container

scissors

magnifying glass

What You Do:

Get an adult’s permission to go outside and search for caterpillars.

To search a plant, gently turn the leaves over one at a time by holding the stem and turning it slightly so you can see the back of the leaf. Look for holes in the leaves. If it looks like something has been eating it, there are probably caterpillars nearby! Keep looking through the plants, and on the ground around the plants.

If you find a caterpillar, carefully cut the leaf or part of the plant that it is on and put it into your container; don’t pick the caterpillar up or take try to take it off the plant because it can hold on tightly and you may hurt it. Cover the container with cheesecloth and put a rubber band around it so your caterpillar can breathe but can’t escape.

If you find any very tiny caterpillars, they may have hatched recently! Use your magnifying glass to look more closely at the backs of leaves to see if there are any butterfly eggs that have not hatched into caterpillars yet. If you find any, don’t touch them, just look.

Now What?

Put a few small twigs and blades of grass in the container to give your caterpillar more interesting places to explore. The caterpillar will not need any water, but it will be very hungry, so make sure you remember what plant it was eating when you found it so that you can get fresh leaves from the same kind of plant. Feed your caterpillar once a day, or more often if it eats all the fresh leaves sooner. Take the old leaves out before putting new ones in. Let the caterpillar go after a couple days.

Note: Instead of finding your own caterpillars, you can order some. You will not need to feed these caterpillars anything because the containers that they come in have all the food they will need, but you can watch them eat and turn into butterflies!

Explanation:

Answer 2

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iv. What did the butterfly sip?

v. Where did the caterpillar crawl?

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iv They drink through a tube-like tongue called a proboscis. It uncoils to sip liquid food, and then coils up again into a spiral when the butterfly is not feeding. Most butterflies prefer flower nectar, but others may feed on the liquids found in rotting fruit, in ooze from trees, and in animal dung.

v. : Crawling Caterpillars. Caterpillars don't have a bone in their body. They move by squeezing muscles in sequence in an undulating wave motion. It is easy enough to observe from the outside, but Michael Simon, then a graduate student at Tufts University wanted to know what was happening on the inside.

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