We wonder where all the butterflies have gone!
How can we attract butterflies to our school gardens?
We have looked at home and and school and we have found no Monarch Butterflies. There are a lot of white butterflies flying around the paddocks and our school gardens but the elusive Monarch is no where to be seen.
We thought butterflies might like flowers so our teacher went off to Mitre 10 and brought pink, yellow, purple and white flowers for a butterfly garden. Our teacher also brought some swan plants. To our surprise there was a tiny caterpillar on one of the plants.
It has munched it's way through the leaves on the swan plant and is now a bigger caterpillar.
To help us plan our gardens we needed to understand what and how butterflies feed.
We had fun learning how a butterfly drinks.
