Unit 04 – A Butterfly Garden

These resources comprise a range of media to help teachers implement this project. There are several photographs of butterflies, moths and some caterpillars and their host pants. There is information about moths and butterflies that older students will be able to read for research and to answer questions.

1. Photographs
2. Text
3. Websites
4. Strategies for a Butterfly Garden
5. Books

Photographs

Common Grass Yellow Common Jezabel Cruiser Orange Bush Brown
Green Banded Blue Orchard Crusier and Orchard Orchard 2
Birdwing Mating Birdwing Proboscis Birdwing Caterpillar Proboscis
Cairns Birdwing Male Cairns Birdwing Female Ulysses 4 o'clock Caterpillar
4 o'clock Caterpillar 2 4 o'clock Moth Hercules Caterpillar Hercules Moth
Hercules Moth 2 Male Eggfly Orange Lacewing Red Lacewing
Adenia Heterophylia 1 Brachychiton Acerifolius Flacourtia Litsea Breviumbellata
Melodorum Leichardtii Scalopia Braunii Micrcitrus Inodora Northern Blue Bush
Ficus Miliusa Brahei Carallia Brachiata Crpytocary Claudiana

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Text

Rainforest butterflies and food-plants
Butterfly Colours
This document discusses the colours and scales on butterfly and moth wings

Moth or Butterfly
The difference between moths and butterflies clearly explained

Facts
Fascinating facts about moths and butterflies

The Life Cycle and Metamorphosis

Rainforest Butterflies and Food Plants

Moth Food Plants
A list of local moths and the plants that attract them

Butterfly Food Plants
A list of butterflies and moths and their host plants

Plants for Moths and Butterflies
A document giving a comprehensive list of food plants

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Websites

http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/staff/psv/butterflyTSV.html#Papilionidae
http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au
http://www.yuruga.com.au

Thanks to Yuruga (Walkamin), C4 at Mission Beach, Limberlost Nurseries (Freshwater) and Kuranda Butterfly Sanctuary for information about plants and butterflies.
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Strategies for a Butterfly Garden

Brainstorming
Report
Questioning techniques
Debate
Claymation
Slideshow
Matching
Question And Answer
Experimenting with colour
Making maps
Photo Montage
Fact cards
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Books

Braby, M.F., 2000. Butterflies of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne
Common, I. F. B. and Waterhouse, D. E. 1981 Butterflies of Australia. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
McCubbin, C., 1971. Australian Butterflies. Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.
Valentine, P.S., 1988. Australian Tropical Butterflies. Frith & Frith Books, Malanda.
Waterhouse, G. A., 1932. What Butterfly is That? Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
Waterhouse, G.A. and Lyell, G., 1914. The Butterflies of Australia. Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
QLD Museum EPA Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland
Available from:
QLD Museum Photo Library (07 338407614)
PO Box 330 South Brisban QLD 4101
Hinton, B. and B., Wildflowers of Tropical Queensland A Wilderness in Bloom. Finepress Offset Printing Pty Ltd
Clayton, F., Trees of Cairns; 2005
Cline, D., Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden, 1990 Reed New Holland
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