Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies Quotes

“What It Looks Like
If you spot the spectacular luna moth, don't try to catch it. It is an endangered species.
The luna moth has very long tails. Its color is a glowing green, but it also has touches of purple, brown, yellow, white and gray. From wingtip to wingtip, it is a little shorter than your hand length. You may see it just beneath a streetlight, waggling its wings, as if dancing. When its long, dangling tails sway in the breeze, it looks like a little lunar-green”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Luna moths have no mouths or stomachs. They do not eat, and only live about one week.
Where to Find It
As soon as the female comes out of the cocoon in April or June, she searches for a tree with leaves her offspring can eat. Many different trees could be food for her caterpillars. So you may find her on walnut, hickory, oak, birch, alder, sweet gum or persimmon trees.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“INTRODUCTION”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“that crawls out of its egg”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“bugs and butterflies are all members of one big "family"-the insects, Most of the time, we just call them all bugs. But how could they all be from the same family? They don't look alike at all. The little black ant looks as different from the huge cecropia moth as a mouse from an elephant.
All caterpillars, bugs and butterflies have one thing in common: CHANGE. The changing they do is easiest to see when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. That is a complete change, from one creature”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“black and yellow”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Halloween, in bright orange”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“flashlight to find northern walkingsticks after dark. Look on the trees where they feed.
Since walkingsticks”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“while it is a pupa. When a butterfly caterpillar sheds its last skin, its inner skin hardens into a chrysalis. A moth caterpillar doesn't make a chrysalis. It makes a cocoon. First, it hooks a silk strand to the top”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Guide”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“tablespoons sugar”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“front”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“elephant.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Where to Find It”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“sugar”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“thejug with water.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“female”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“tablespoons sugar
• water
• 1 quart plastic jug
• old paintbrush”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“green or tan. Its skinny”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Gypsy”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“cocoon”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“twig.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“The mourning cloak caterpillar eats the leaves of elm, willow, cottonwood, poplar, birch, aspen or hackberry trees. Look for trees with leaves that have been eaten down to the "skeletons.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“These caterpillars always seem to be hungry. They eat the leaves of 400 kinds of trees-even pine tree needles. Every seven to ten years, from May to mid July, there is an outbreak of gypsy caterpillars in the Northeast, where most of them live. In their last big outbreak, they gobbled the leaves off 13 million acres of trees and”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“Some people say the woollybear can forecast the weather. The more black it has, legend says, the colder the winter will be. But scientists say it grows less black as it gets older. So a woollybear with more black is really just a younger caterpillar.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“In fall you will see it crawling out of gardens, over lawns, even across highways. In spring, the woollybear caterpillar spins its cocoon out of its body hair and silk. It becomes the Isabella moth, a member of the tiger moth family. So, the "bear" turns into a "tiger.”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“hornworms”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“jug”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“butterflies”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide

“grasshopper”
― Mel Boring, Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies: Take-Along Guide