THE BUTTERFLY
What is that
graceful creature roaming around the garden? Hummmm…! It is the magnificent butterfly;
it is so beautiful. Do you know why the butterfly’s wings are so beautiful? They
are not just to beautify itself, it is also to camouflage in its environment
from danger. I wonder what they eat, how it comes about and its importance.
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Lifecycle
The male and
female butterfly come together as a dance partner an d mate. The female
butterfly lays 8- 10 eggs on an ever green leaf in the forest, a young plant or
on a wall that plants grows on. She flies away and leaves the eggs. After 4 to
6 days. The caterpillar hatches from the egg. When the caterpillar was in the
egg, it did not eat so it is very hungry and begins to eat. It is as it eats
that it grows fatter, fatter and fatter. It even sheds its skin then it enters
into the crystallise. After a week, it comes out of the crystallise as a
butterfly. It stays for its wings to dry before it flies away. “What the
butterfly calls the end, the world calls a butterfly” from Angry Birds.
Food
The butterfly
has a tube like thing called the tongue. Did you know that the butterfly does
not have a mouth like you and me to eat any food? It uses its tongue to suck
the nectar out of the plant and it also uses its leg to carry pollens it helps
to pass pollen from male to female plants for reproduction.
Importance
Butterfly is
important to mankind because it is a symbol of beauty and they tell us whether
the environment is clean and finally scientist can be able to see their
characteristics and how they live.
Butterflies are
very wonderful insects, they go through changes , from eggs into a caterpillar
and then stays in a crystallise before finally turning into an adult butterfly.
It sucks nectars from plants as food and makes us to know whether an
environment is clean.
Written be
Chidera Seth Nwachukwu
Grade 5
Hopespring
Foundation School
lovely and educative
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