The Butterfly House is open at the Chattahoochee Nature Center! Each visitor is given a foam brush saturated in sugar water to attract and hold the butterflies. Many of them also land on unexpecting heads! Behind the Butterfly House, open through August 6th, is a pollinator loving native plant sale.

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Another informative book to add to your science library:

Click here for a post about the differences between moths and butterflies.

Click here for a post about pollinators.

Click here for a post about how to add symmetry to your study of butterflies.

Click here for a post about a butterfly’s proboscis.

Order caterpillars from Insect Lore and watch them move through metamorphosis.

Check out this engaging light investigation performed by the students at Science Akademeia.

Fun Facts:
A group pf butterflies is called a kaleidoscope.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
They can see a range of ultraviolet colors that are invisible to the human eye.
The monarch butterfly migrates every fall to the warmer climates of California and Mexico.
Butterflies have four wings covered with scales.
If temperatures are below 55 degrees, butterflies can’t fly.

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Maya Angelou

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