butterflysites

Explore the Magical World of Butterflies

The Butterfly Guide
http://www.butterflies.com/guide.html

The Butterfly Guide highlights the most popular butterflies from around the world. At this site you will find beautifully colored moths, small garden variety butterflies, and classic butterflies such as Swallowtails, Viceroys, and Monarchs. You can refer to this site to identify plants that will attract butterflies to your garden.

Butterfly Habitats
http://www.fmnh.org/butterfly/habit.htm Though different kinds of butterflies have similar life cycles, you won't find all species of butterflies world wide. Butterfly Habitats discusses the environmental factors that create favorable butterfly habitats for a particular butterfly species. This site is especially useful for third grade classrooms since it classifies its butterfly photos according to the regions of the world.

Butterflies of North America
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm Butterflies of North America can be used to locate photographs of butterflies native to a particular state or North American country.

The Butterfly Web Site Photo Gallery
http://mgfx.com/butterfly/index.htm The Butterfly Web Site Photo Gallery offers an extensive collection of butterfly, moth, and caterpillar photographs.

Monarch Butterfly Lifecycle
http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/monarch.html Clear pictures and a minimum of text makes this an effective site to use on the large screen monitor in your classroom.

Where Do Butterflies Come From?
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/index.html Where Do Butterflies Come From? is an excellent art activity to visually explain the life cycle of a butterfly.

The Butterfly Farm S.A.
http://www.butterflyfarm.co.cr/

This site provides information on butterfly bodies, how they grow, their defense mechanisms, and the difference between a moth and a butterfly. Don't miss the Student's Guide to Butterflies section.

Monarchs and Migration
http://www.smm.org/sln/monarchs/top.html Here at this site from the Science Museum of Minnesota, you will find pictures, links, and information on investigating butterflies and migration, and more.

Enchanted Learning: All About Butterflies
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/ All About Butterflies is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about butterflies. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links.

Butterflies North and South
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Butterflies

This website was produced by Museums and affiliated organizations in
Canada and Peru, to give you a glimpse of the butterfly and moth wonders just waiting to be seen and appreciated.

United States Geological Survey: Butterflies of North America
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm Users looking to identify an unknown butterfly can browse their
collection of thumbnail photos and jump to a particular species account and distribution map. ( See their Frequently Asked Question Identification of Moths and Butterflies.)

Monarch Butterfly Thematic Resource Unit
http://www.midgefrazel.net/monarchtheme.html This thematic unit has been designed to assist teachers who are developing their own lessons to integrate technology and the power of the web within their classrooms.

Life Cycle of Butterflies
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5438.html Students will learn about the life cycle of butterflies and find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about these colorful insects.

Monarch Watch
http://www.monarchwatch.org/ Learn more about the spectacular migration that millions of Monarchs make each year.

Butterflies Theme Page
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/butterflies.htm
This site contains a collection of photographs of butterflies and moths.

The following three sites explain the biology and ecology of butterflies and moths. They discuss their similarities and differences.
Butterflies and Moths
http://www.butterflies-moths.com/
Butterflies vs. Moths
http://www.fmnh.org/butterfly/bvsm_basic.htm
Butterfly and Moth Life Cycle
http://www.fmnh.org/butterfly/life_basic.htm

Butterflies
http://www.dcboces.org/sufsd/nassau/vitek/butterfly/butterflies.html This site is an online guide to local butterflies.

The Essential Butterfly Guide
http://www.butterflies.com/guide.htm This guide is divided into six regions defining the common range of each
included species of butterfly.

Butterflies and Bugs
http://www.billybear4kids.com/butterfly/flutter-fun.html

This site contains many printable activity pages, wonderful photographs, the butterfly life cycle, and online word searches and crossword puzzles.

abcteach: Butterflies
http://abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/animals/insects/butterflies/ This site contains many printable handouts including the butterfly life cycle.