Match the butterfly to its larval food!
Each of the B.C. butterflies pictured below have specific diets when they are young larvae, or caterpillars.
In this game, try to match the adult butterfly to the food plant it eats as a wee caterpillar!
This is Acmon Blue. It’s adorable and small. What does its caterpillar eat?
Hank and I went to the Dallas-Barnhartvale Nature Park today. In the restored wetland, this elderberry is unfurling. The delicate green ball, cradled by purple leaves, will later differentiate into hundreds of creamy-white flowers. And these flowers will eventually develop into berries for black bears to eat. (And! those purple leaves will turn green soon.)
Continue reading →Do you know what these little grassland babies will be when they grow up? Try your luck matching the germinants (1-4) to their grown-up form (A-D) below. Click on the images to enlarge them!
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