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My in-laws were in town visiting last May, and we took them to Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, a beautiful manor house that was the home of one of the Goodyear founders in the early 1900s. They turned the conservatory into a butterfly garden. Since my other layouts of our visit will talk more specifically about Stan Hywet, I decided to list fun facts about butterflies on this LO. Used a Becky Higgins sketch and flip-flopped it. TFL! :)
Journaling: Did you know that butterflies need the warmth of the sun to enable them to fly? Butterflies are cold-blooded and will not fly if the temperature is below 50 degrees. Fact or Fiction? You will kill a butterfly if you touch its wings. Fiction, you will not hurt a butterfly if you touch it, although you might rub off some of the color of its wings which are actually miniature scales. There are some species of butterflies like the Red Admiral that actually prefer feeding on rotting fruit and animal dung! Butterflies excrete a red liquid which is sometimes mistaken for blood when in reality it is actually meconium, "pupal fluid" which isn't blood at all. It is made up of waste material that is produced during the pupal stage. Butterflies "taste" with their feet! Butterfly feet are actually tiny receptors which allow them to "taste" the food that they are standing on. True or False? Both male and female swallowtails have the "puddling" behavior. False, only the males of the species gather around mud puddles to sip the nutrients from the mud. Have you ever seen a tiny white butterfly fluttering about your vegetable garden? Chances are it is an adult cabbage white butterfly depositing eggs on your cabbage or vegetables in the cabbage family. The caterpillar of the cabbage white is velvety and just the right shade of green to blend in perfectly with the cabbage leaves.
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February 01, 2008
October 14, 2007