5,4,3,2,1 Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

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• The Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly is 4 to 6 1/2 inches long.
• Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies are bright yellow, have a black V on the inner half of hind wings, 5 vertical bars on fore wings.
• If you touch a butterfly their color rubs off easily and this is due to it being made up of color scales.
• The Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly belongs to a large group of about 550 Swallowtail butterfly species.
• Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies are cold blooded and they like to be in the sun because that is where they get their heat.

4 questions

• Do all butterflies have colored scales so if you touch them their color will rub off onto your fingers?
• Are all butterflies kind of the same like in the way they eat, what they do, how they sleep and so on?
• Do all animals that are cold blooded have to keep moving in the sun to keep their their temperature regulated?
• Do all animals kind of have something like social gatherings where they meet up with animals from the same species?

3 vocabulary

• Sulphur: yellow with a greenish tinge
• Savannas: a flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions
• Lepidoptera: the order of compromising

2 literary

• "they overlap like shingles on a roof" (pg. 89) simile
• "flying butter" (pg. 90)

1 overview

• This chapter was about Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies and what they look like, a story, 4 stages of their development, and also where they lay their eggs.