Product Description
Our monarch butterfly life cycle set comes in a blister pack attached to a nine-inch tall card. The back of the card describes the four stages of monarch butterfly development in English, French, Spanish, and German. Our lifecycle set is made by Safari, Ltd., one of the best names in accurate and scientific animal replicas. What a fun way to learn biology! See our other insect and butterfly toys and gifts.
The monarch butterfly or simply monarch is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its annual southward late-summer/autumn migration from the northern and central United States and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico. The caterpillar goes through five major, distinct stages of growth and after each one, it molts. Each caterpillar, or instar, that molts is larger than the previous as it eats and stores energy in the form of fat and nutrients to carry it through the nonfeeding pupal stage. After, it encases itself in an articulated green exoskeleton. An adult butterfly emerges after about two weeks as a chrysalid.
