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- Okay, welcome to Butterfly World!
This is our laboratory
and back here is where we raise baby butterflies.
Come on up here, come look in the glass!
Do you know that butterflies don't always have wings?
But they have to go through lots
of changes before they get to get their wings.
So they start out as something teeny tiny.
What happens is mama butterfly has to lay eggs.
Behind the glass, on their special plants,
we have caterpillars and caterpillars are baby butterflies.
Look in here, do you see that?
And it sheds its skin
and underneath it looks like something like this.
Do you know that inside of these,
these are called pupa, or chrysalids.
- [Ms. Penny] Say pupa.
- [Child] Pupa.
- Pupa!
So inside this..
- I have a question.
- Yes?
- So pupa and chrysalis mean exactly the same thing?
- Exactly the same word.
The wrong word would be a cocoon
because, did you know, that no butterflies make cocoons.
Only moths make cocoons and some people get that confused.
They look different because they're different kinds
and inside of this, what do you think is being made inside?
What is the caterpillar turning into?
- A butterfly.
- [Ms. Penny] It goes from the egg
to the caterpillar to the pupa.
And then what comes after that?
- [Child] Wings.
- The wings because it becomes a what?
- A butterfly.
- That's right! - A butterfly!
That's right.
- [Ms. Penny] Let's go out and see some real butterflies.
- Okay!
So this is this mama butterfly's special tree.
Come up here real close so you can see.
Do you see the eggs?
They're very tiny!
Show me eggs, Gianni, look closely.
Does anyone see the eggs?
- Right there. - Eggs right there.
- [Jessica] That's right!
- [Arianna] They're everywhere!
- [Jessica] That's right, they are everywhere.
All of these little dots.
Look over here, look over here Arianna, look at this.
Isn't that amazing?
Look how tiny they are, they're tiny like freckles.
Really tiny.
- There she is, she's gonna lay eggs.
Look. - Watch.
- [Child] Yay!
- [Jessica] Look at her, mama butterflies have hundreds
of eggs to lay, so they're very busy.
- And how about caterpillars, do you see one?
- Let's see, I think I see a caterpillar over here.
- [Ms. Penny] Look, I see it.
Look inside. - I'm gonna show you
something about this caterpillar, it wears a costume
and it tries to... - Oh I see one!
- [Jessica] Yes, do you see it?
Do you see it?
- [Gianni] Right there, an other one!
- I'm gonna show you these caterpillars.
If I make them mad, they have horns that they put out.
Watch, there he is, look at his horns!
Do you see those horns?
- [Ms. Penny] Oh my gosh!
- Do you smell those horns?
Do you know that their costume is one
that makes them look like bird poo poo?
Bird poo poo!
Do you know why?
- Oh, he's getting mad on me.
- Well, he's trying tho scare you, but you know what?
Look, look at his horns!
But here's the thing, he's not really mean.
He just tries to look mean
because he doesn't want a bird to eat him.
(squeals)
- He's tickling me!
(laughing)
- Okay, let's look. - Oh, look at that!
- So you wanna look at him for a minute?
Now this butterfly, I'm gonna show you his camouflage.
Do you see how he's brown on one side?
- [Child] Yeah.
- That's so he can camouflage in with trees.
Now, let me show you
what color he is on the other side, though.
- Oh, look!
- What color is he here?
- Blue!
- He's blue!
- Wow!
- He shows his blue when he wants to find friends,
but when he wants to hide from birds, he shows his brown.
Let me show you what else.
Do you see these dots on his wings?
- [Child] Mm-hmm.
- Those are pretend eyes, they're called eyespots.
Do you know that butterfly wings are made of little scales,
kind of like fish scales?
And they come off when we touch them.
That's why we don't want to touch their wings.
Because we don't want the scales to come off.
So these are the biggest butterflies we have in this room.
They're called birdwings.
- (squeals)
- It tickles a little bit when they touch you.
- (screams)
- Now listen to this funny story.
The boy has pretty colors and the girl is bigger
and she doesn't have pretty colors.
- Oh!
- Isn't that confusing?
Now not all butterflies look different, boys and girls,
but some kinds do.
Okay, so this is his eyes.
Butterflies have compound eyes.
They see more colors of the rainbow than we do.
Those are the butterfly's antenna.
That's how he smells, with his antennae.
And do you see that circle in front of his face?
- [Ms. Penny] Look, there's the circle.
- [Jessica] Now he drinks from flowers,
he opens that up like a straw.
It's called a proboscis.
- What is that?
- Well, that is called his abdomen.
- [Ms. Penny] Can you say abdomen?
- [Child] Abdomen.
- [Ms. Penny] Yes, that's the yellow part.
- [Jessica] And do you see those black dots,
down his abdomen?
- [Child] Yeah.
That's how butterflies breathe!
They breathe through walls on their abdomen.
- So they have a head, they have an abdomen.
- A thorax.
- Thorax!
- [Jessica] And an abdomen.
- [Ms. Penny] Look at the thorax, look, look, look.
- Where's the red part on him?
- [Arianna] Right there.
- [Jessica] Yes, that's his thorax,
that's where his legs are connected to.
Butterflies have four wings.
- Four wings, did you know butterflies have four wings?
- The back ones are called hindwings
and the top ones are called forewings.
- Hindwings and forewings.
Show me where the wings are, where's the forewings?
- Exactly. - Good.
- Now he has colors on both sides.
- Oh wow, look at that.
- He's showing us his wings,
that's even nicer. - Look how beautiful he is.
- Wow!
- What color is he?
- Green!
- That's how we know he's a boy, right?
The girls only have black.
- And how many wings does he have?
How many wings? - One, two, three, four.
- Four wings.
- Exactly.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Can you stomp your feet and taste like a butterfly?
- Butterflies taste with their feet, taste with your feet.
- Very good!
Okay, so how do butterflies smell?
With their antennae, let me see. (sniffing)
How do they taste?
With their feet.
How do they drink?
With their proboscis. (slurping)
That's very good.
- You look like a flower to me.
- Then they open their wings to the sun.
Can you open your wings
to the sun and get warm? - Open your wings!
- And then, what do they do when they get their wings warm?
They fly into the rainforest.
Let's fly... - Here we go, we're gonna fly.
- Into the rainforest.
- Oh, they're floating and flying.
Look at that!
- Oh, feel the rain?
Oh, it feels wonderful!
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Okay, so scientists put butterflies in cases
where we can study them.
Come look up close
and see the symmetry in the butterfly's wings.
That means that one side looks the same as the other side.
Do you see the symmetry?
Do you remember when you touched these butterflies outside?
This was the male and this was the female.
- This was the boy outside.
- That is right, this is the boy outside.
Can you how his wings are symmetrical?
This is a family of butterflies and this is the cousins
to the one that was outside that we saw.
Do you see how they look alike?
They have symmetry in their wings, too.
Can you make a symmetrical butterfly with your hands?
- Yeah, like this.
- [Ms. Penny] How do you do that?
- [Child] But you can do this.
- [Jessica] Put your thumbs together, like the body.
Put your thumbs together.
- [Ms. Penny] Like this.
- And then your hands are symmetrical
because they're the same on both sides.
I just wanna show you one more thing.
Do you remember the butterfly
that landed on Ms. Penny's shoulder?
Do you see his family here?
See how they all look alike?
- Mm-hmm.
- Yes, they're beautiful.
- They're called blue morphos
and now you can see his family.
- That's wonderful!
Thank you so much for showing us Butterfly World.
- Absolutely, thanks for visiting,
Ms. Penny and Kid Vision kids.
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