Introducing eTwinning project "Spring, flowers and butterflies"
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This document discusses butterflies and moths found in the Alpiarça region of Portugal. It aims to enhance and protect local species and habitats, develop environmental awareness, and monitor biodiversity. A field trip is planned to study butterflies, bringing observation materials. The life cycles of moths are explained, and differences between diurnal and nocturnal insects. Specific butterfly and moth species found in the region are then described, including characteristics, host plants, behaviors and threats. The largest butterfly in Portugal and monarch butterfly migration are also mentioned.
Introducing eTwinning project "Spring, flowers and butterflies"
- 2. Let’s study the butterflies in Alpiarça!
- 3. Green Lesson aims • Enhance and protect species and habitats characteristic of the region; • Develop environmental and cultural awareness and respect; • Recognize butterflies as an important environmental quality; • Know and disclose some species of butterflies, flora and fauna of the region, contributing to the monitoring of its biodiversity; • Increase knowledge about the Portuguese butterflies exploring their life cycles and sharing the information with other European countries; • Establish associations between butterflies and flora of the region.
- 4. Green Lesson Please bring: - Comfortable clothes and shoes; - Cap/hat - Water - Sun protector - Pen or pencil/observation worksheet - “Bring your own devices” (photos, record)
- 8. Life cycle of a moth
- 9. Life cycle of a moth Eggs
- 10. Life cycle of a moth caterpillars
- 11. Life cycle of a moth Chrysalis
- 12. Life cycle of a moth Imago
- 13. Diurnal vs. Nocturnal • Antennas clubs • In rest position closes its wings vertically above your body, staying visible to the bottom of the wings • Antennas with several Forms (feathery, filiform, etc.) • In the rest position the wings are horizontally or forming a kind of "roof" over the body, making visible the upper wings
- 14. Curiosities • The largest Butterfly in Portugal is the “Charaxius jasius” - the butterfly of the strawberry tree.
- 16. In the Group of the Lepidoptera, the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), is one that has a larger capacity and migratory long distances between the breeding area in the Canadian Summer and overwintering area in Mexico!. In addition to seasonal migration the Monarch has arrived also to Europe, and settled in some places.
- 18. Iphiclides feisthamelii • Flies from February to December • Host plant: Blackthorn, peach and Pear • Caterpillar has osmeterium which displays when threatened. • By the reduction of habitats the species took refuge in orchards
- 19. Pieris brassicae(big cabbage butterfly) • Flies from January to December • Host plant: cabbages and turnips • Can be pests • Eggs laid in numerous groups • Individuals who are born in summer are migratory species • Most species are adapted to urban environments
- 20. Pieris rapae (small cabbage butterfly) • Flies from February to November • Host plant: cabbages and turnips • Eggs laid singly on the underside of leaves • Habitat: cultivated fields and meadows in bloom
- 21. Vanessa atalanta (Red Admiral) • Flies from January to December • Host plant: nettle • Practice hill-topping • The Caterpillar builds individual nests uniting leaves with silk yarn
- 22. Vanessa Cardui • Flies March through October • Host plant: Thistles, acanthus-bastard, loves, mauve and nettles • Chrysalis is sensitive to cold
- 23. Inachios io (diurnal peacock) • Flies from July to may of the following year • Host plant: nettle • The Caterpillar is gregarious • The adult hibernates in rustic constructions, flying on sunny days in winter
- 24. Pararge aegeria (malhadinha) • Flies from January to December • Host plant: various grasses • Daytime and nighttime while small Caterpillar in order of growth • The male is territorial and rarely leaves his observation post
- 25. Maniola jurtina (medlar butterfly) • Flies from March to October • Host plant: grasses • Caterpillar feeds on down to the last day changes, passing then to be nocturnal
- 26. Moths
- 27. Saturnia pyri (nocturne peacock) • Flies from March to June • Host plant: Apple trees, pear trees, peach trees, ash, willow and Poplar • Can be in the cocoon about three years
- 28. Insects
- 29. Insects