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Butterfly Thinking Questions: Super Teacher Worksheets

This document contains questions about butterflies and their lifecycle. It asks why butterflies are classified as insects, why monarch butterflies only lay eggs on milkweed leaves, what a proboscis is and what butterflies do with it, and how caterpillars can be insects without six legs. The answer key provides short responses: butterflies have three body parts and six legs; caterpillars need milkweed for food; a proboscis is a butterfly's straw-like organ for drinking nectar; and caterpillars are in the larval stage before growing legs as adults.

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Butterfly Thinking Questions: Super Teacher Worksheets

This document contains questions about butterflies and their lifecycle. It asks why butterflies are classified as insects, why monarch butterflies only lay eggs on milkweed leaves, what a proboscis is and what butterflies do with it, and how caterpillars can be insects without six legs. The answer key provides short responses: butterflies have three body parts and six legs; caterpillars need milkweed for food; a proboscis is a butterfly's straw-like organ for drinking nectar; and caterpillars are in the larval stage before growing legs as adults.

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Butterfly Thinking Questions


1. List two reasons why butterflies are classified as insects.

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2. Monarch butterflies don't lay their eggs on just any type of leaf. They only lay their
eggs on milkweed leaves. Why?

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3. What is a proboscis? What does a butterfly do with it?

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4. How can a caterpillar be an insect if it does not have six legs?

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ANSWER KEY
Butterfly Thinking Questions

1. List two reasons why butterflies are classified as insects.

Butterflies are insects because they have three main body


parts (head, thorax, and abdomen). They also have six legs.

2. Monarch butterflies don't lay their eggs on just any type of leaf. They only lay their
eggs on milkweed leaves. Why?

When the caterpillars hatch, they need milkweed for food. They can't eat other types of
leaves.

3. What is a proboscis? What does a butterfly do with it?

A proboscis is a long, thin, curled organ on a butterfly's head. It is used like a straw
to sip nectar from flowers.

4. How can a caterpillar be an insect if it does not have six legs?

A caterpillar is a butterfly in the larval stage. Only adult insects have six legs.

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