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MONARCH
FUN FACTS
taste with the bottom of their feet
pollinate with the pollen on their feet
uses a hollow tongue like a straw to
drink the nectar of flowers
Male Monarch butterflies have a black
dot on their wings
Which
releases a scent to attract a female mate
have green blood
Monarch butterflies have huge eyes
that have 6,000 lenses
can fly 80 to 100 miles a day at speeds
of 10-30 miles per hour at 7,000-10,000 feet
A
MONARCH CATERPILLAR IS BORN
!!!
Female
Monarch butterflies fly north in the spring and deposit 400 eggs, one to the
underside of each milkweed plant leaf
The tiny cream colored egg is the
size of a pin head
Watch the egg change color to grey
In about one week a black, yellow and
white Monarch caterpillar will emerge by chewing a hole in the egg shell
It is about 1/8 th of an inch long
In two weeks it will eat 2,700 times
it weight and measure two inches long
Its BIG appetite causes it to eat an
entire milkweed leaf in approx 5 minutes !
A poison in the milkweed plant
protects the Monarch butterfly from being eaten by birds
Monarch caterpillars have 12 small
eyes
Monarch caterpillars have thirteen
sections and breathe through holes in each section
Monarch caterpillars have two sets of
black feelers, the longest are on its head
Monarch caterpillars chew from side
to side
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