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nectar. Can you see the butterfly's tongue coiled up underneath the 

 head? How long is it when uncoiled? 



6. How many legs has the Monarch? How many legs have insects 

 in general? Do you think, then, the Monarch is not an insect? 



7. Do you know why the striking colors of the Monarch butterfly 

 are an advantage to it? Do you know the Viceroy butterfly, which 

 imitates the Monarch? What advantage is this to the Viceroy? 



8. Look at the Monarch butterfly and note whether there is on the 

 upper side of each hind wing a long, black spot near one of the veins. 

 What is this for? Are these spots on all Monarch butterflies? 



The Caterpillar 



9. On what plant does the Monarch caterpillar feed? Do you find it 

 on the upper or lower side of the leaves? Do you think the mother 

 butterfly laid the eggs on this plant which later hatched into the cater- 

 pillars? 



10. How many colors do you find upon the caterpillar? How are 

 these colors arranged? 



n. Can you see some little whip-lash-like filaments on the cater- 

 pillar? On which segments are they? Which pair are the longest, 

 the front or the hind pair? If you touch the caterpillar, which pair 

 twitches the mere excitedly? Of what use do you think these little 

 living whips are to the caterpillar? 



12. Describe how the caterpillar eats the milkweed leaf. Does it 

 eat constantly or does it now and then rest? 



13. Watch the caterpillar and describe how it sheds its skjn. Why 

 does it shed its skin? 



The Chrysalis 



14. When the caterpillar gets its growth and is ready to change 

 to a chrysalis, how does it hang itself up ? Describe how it sheds 

 its skin. 



15. Describe the shape of the chrysalis. What is its color? How 

 is it ornamented? 



16. Watch the colors of the chrysalis day by day and note if they 

 change. Do the markings change? 



17. How does the butterfly get out of the chrysalis? How does it 

 look when it first comes out? How does it act at first? How does the 

 empty chrysalis look? 



