Madam Butterfly

As part of our Science learning, we had a very special guest visit us this term. Jacqui Knight has a huge interest in butterflies and she came to May Road to share her expert knowledge. She gave us HEAPS of facts. Here's some of the ones we can remember:

What we learnt from the Butterfly Lady - Jacqui Knight

• Don’t touch the sticky part of the tag, because the oil from your fingers will not make it last long. (Lorilei)
• When its raining, butterflies close their wings to keep dry. (Farhad)
• Don’t release butterflies on rainy and windy days. (Katalina)
• When it’s raining, butterflies go to a tree and hang out there to keep dry. (Sione)
• Heaps of rain is bad for the butterflies. (Christina)
• Hold the back of the butterflies wings when you are tagging them. (Divya)
• If butterflies want to lay their eggs, they can smell a swan plant from school to the end of Mt Roskill, which is about 2 kilometres. (Jordyn)
• When you put the tag on the butterfly, you can detect where they are if you put the data into the website. (Ifalame)
• They use their antennae to sense something. (Akosita)
• They see colour but their eyesight isn’t very good. (Isabella)
• Monarch butterflies aren’t scared of humans. (Vaisioa)
• There is a difference between the male and females. You can tell if its a male because the wings are darker and have 2 dots.  (Marua & Azaar)
• Butterflies can be tagged. (Sebastian)
• Butterflies can have lots of babies (between 300 - 1000). (Jeneba)
• Butterflies can taste with their feet. (Miss Percy)

We are all now super keen to find out more about tagging butterflies and how we can get involved in this special job!