Insects

Page Updated December 2024

About Butterflies  Includes a complete butterfly dictionary and a host of information on butterflies.

Create a Butterfly Mobile  Instructions to create your own mobile. Other great ideas for making new things from "old" and recycled materials.

Dances with Bees  Learn about and then interpret bee dances. (QuickTime plug-in required.) From NOVA.

Monarch Watch  Learn almost everything you ever wanted to know about Monarch butterflies. See pictures of these wonderful creatures and learn how to raise your own.

PestWorld for Kids  What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place. Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. Check out this site, you will never look at an ant or cockroach in the same way again.

The Butterfly Website  Students observe the stages in the life cycle of a butterfly. There is butterfly-farming information for different types of butterflies and you can order different types of butterflies in the larvae stage.