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Vida: Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use these images to study the monarch butterfly's life cycle.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Purple Emperor (Apatura Iris )

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the purple emperor butterfly. Discusses where they are found, physical characteristics, habitat, diet, reproduction, and threats to its population.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: A Trickle Down Forest Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines information on both the rain forest biome and creatures of the rain forest. Topics covered include "puddle club," butterflies, vertebrate predators, and more.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: New York Swing: Design Challenge

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to transform a common-style backyard area to include plants that will invite wildlife like songbirds, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
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Athabasca University: Centre for Language and Literature: Timothy Findley

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Canadian novelist Timothy Findley, author of "The Last of the Crazy People," "The Butterfly Plague," and "Journeyman." Read about his early life, his successes, and why he is considered a postmodern writer.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Western Pipistrelle

For Students 4th - 8th
Western pipistrelles sometimes leave their roosts before sundown and can be mistaken for late-flying butterflies, because they are so tiny and fly slowly and erratically, with much fluttering of their wings. Most common at low elevations...

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