Elenco Insect Exploring Kit - Manual (Page 5)

Caterpillar of the Large Cabbage Butterfly
A Sweet Tooth
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Pollen Transportation Business
The reason blossoms produce nectar is to attract various flying bugs
so they can transport its pollen to other blossoms thereby enabling
other fruit and blossoms to grow. By landing on the blossom, flying
insects are covered in this
pollen and carry it to other
plants.
A lot of flying bugs just loves anything containing sugar, just like
we do. The bugs need energy in order to fly and sugar gives them
this needed energy. Nectar
from blossoms is a sugary
liquid that flying bugs go
after.
For about three-
quarters of a year, you
can find bugs. If you
do not want to bother
the bugs on the flowers, use the
small lens from your two-way
magnifying glass to look at
them, otherwise you can use this
two-way magnifying glass to study
them closely.
On the blossom, you will find a whole
horde of different bugs. From butterflies
dipping their long sucking tubes into the nectar to
bumblebees, flies and other colourful bugs.
What an Appetite
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Eggs of the
Peacock
Butterfly
Caterpillar
shortly
before
pupating
Pupa
Freshly hatched
butterfly
pumping its
wings full
with air
Swallow-Tail
Caterpillar
Caterpillar
A caterpillar is a worm-like creature that
slowly crawls on the leaves of the
plant. Its black body is long with
yellow spots. You can see tiny feet
sticking out the bottom and small
pikes sticking out everywhere.
Caterpillars
are nothing to
be scared of
and are defiantly
worth an observation
in your Bug viewer.
Feed it a fresh leaf
while in your box and
you will see how it eats
the leaf with its round
head. You will also see
brown droppings left
behind.
Some caterpillars
can camouflage
themselves very
well, so you will
have to look close.
Laying her eggs on the
plant is the female
butterfly. Hatching from
these eggs will be so tiny
caterpillars that will eat
and grow. They become
pupae in a few weeks.
What happens next is one
or the marvels of nature.
The caterpillar will
transform itself into a
butterfly, popping out of
the pupa and flying away.