butterflies as pets

Uni cares for a chrysalis and wants to keep it as a pet, but when the butterfly emerges, she learns some animals are meant to be wild.

Uni cares for a chrysalis and wants to keep it as a pet, but when the butterfly emerges, she learns some animals are meant to be wild.

Text and color photos present information on the raising and mating of butterflies; provide instructions for twelve projects, including making a butterfly house and learning to hand-feed them; and profile nearly forty types of butterflies, listing their breeding areas, host plants, and nectar plants, and describing their chrysalises and their physical traits as caterpillars and as butterflies.

"Follow a classroom of real kindergartners as they participate in a popular activity--raising butterflies . . . photographs show the life cycle of the painted lady butterfly, from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult. Engaging text captures the children's wonder and explains the science behind metamorphosis"--Publisher.

Text and photographs show how one can collect, feed, and care for butterflies and moths.

Explains how to attract, identify, and raise butterflies.

Investigates the physical characteristics, reproductive processes, habitats, and metamorphoses of butterflies and moths through hands-on projects.