Predators and Protection: The Art of the Butterfly

Your course will be held at Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden. This glass-enclosed butterfly garden enjoys the tropical weather throughout the year. The garden is full of living leaves, waterfalls of waterfalls, North America and tropical butterflies freely flying in colorfulness.

This course provides students with a deep understanding of how the environment affects the behavior of butterflies from the knowledge of butterflies they already know. People with experience using butterflies are very helpful

Students learn about butterfly predators, relationships of predators and prey, and factors influencing butterfly survival.

Hood token: Chips for poker work well, but small paper or cardboard (3 for each "butterfly" is enough)

Place 4 or 5 hula hoops in the empty space between "house" and "garden". These represent safe havens of butterflies. (If you do not have hula hoops, you can use a string or chalk outline.)

We will pass identification cards such as hats, vests and scarves to identify predators. There should be 1 predator in 4 to 6 butterflies. You can tell the students that they are birds, snakes and bats.

Tell them they are standing in their "house", they have to take out three food tokens from the "garden" and bring them home, but they only have one token at a time I can not carry it. But their travels are difficult as birds, snakes and bats may try to eat them. There are two ways that butterflies can prevent predators from being eaten. They can freeze, or they can hit a bush (with hula hoops) they can not be "seen" by predators

Predators can be anywhere in the field and only "mark" butterflies to simulate eating butterflies. However, predators can not mark frozen butterflies and butterflies in "garden" as "garden" or "bush". Mark out a butterfly and exit the game

Let 's play the game for 5-7 minutes in each round (or you may lose attention of captured butterflies, you have to wait for the sideline). But you can freeze butterflies as much as you like, but if you do not have three food tokens at the end of the event you will starve to death. Sometimes wildlife will explain to students that they must choose between meals and safety.

Ask students to summarize what happened and which work-arounds are most effective. We will use this as a stepping stone to discuss what we can do to survive butterflies in the wild.

Let's be cautious. The color of butterflies can be used to protect it. Predators like birds may think twice, as the big point of the owl butterfly looks like a much bigger animal's eye. Other butterflies are disguised as being integrated into the environment and some butterflies are vividly colored to warn them of poison. Most adult butterflies can neither chew nor chew. They mainly eat liquids such as honey, juice, fruit juice, and sometimes corpse liquid. They have a long tubular tongue called a long nose that absorbs liquid like straw. When they do not use it, the long nose winds like a garden hose. Morgan's Sphinx moth has a long nose of up to 12 to 14 inches (30 to 35 cm) to remove honey from a deep orchid flower

Butterflies are usually polymorphic and many species use camouflage, imitation to escape their predators using imitation. Some people like such princes and painted women travel long distances. Many butterflies are attacked by parasites or parasites including wasps, protozoans, flies and other invertebrates or parasites, or are preyed by other organisms. Some species are pests because they hurt livestock crops or trees during their larval stage; others are pollinators of certain plants. Some larvae (such as harvesters) of butterflies eat harmful insects, some are predators of ants, others are coexisting with ants. Culturally, butterflies are a popular theme in visual arts and literary arts.

Is it a monarch? Watch again! The Governor Butterfly is a butterfly seed using Muller imitation. This is evolution of two toxic species that are similar and share protection. Their similarity basically is shouting "Hey, I am toxic!" In the case of carnivores. The easiest way to tell the two is to look for a horizontal band at the bottom of the governor's wing. Although the prince is eating tuwata to obtain toxins from the body to protect it from predators, the adult governor gets toxic salicylic acid from the willow tree. According to the biologist Lara Drizd of Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office, some predators taste bad and try not to use them. .