Chapter 7: Butterflies & Moths

Session 1. Book Exploring – Bugs Dictionary

Continued telling the book of “Butterflies and Moths”. It was slightly lengthy as it was going deeper into the facts of butterflies n moths.

Searched Google to see is there butterfly in Iceland. Apparently the peacock butterflies appeared in Iceland in every summer.

When I was counting the body segments of a caterpillar, Kin stopped me and showed me a quicker way of counting by counting in 2 – 2, 4, 6, 8, 10.

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– Many butterflies have patterns which can only be seen in a special light called “ultraviolet” light

A bright light will attract dozens of moths at night. A more exciting way to see them is to paint tree trunks or fences posts with a mixture of treacle and beer. Moths will visit this mixture after dark to feed on the smelly, sugary liquid. You can watch them feeding if you cover the end of the torch with red cellophane or plastic. Moths can’t see red light; this let’s you watch them without scaring them away.
Sdiao reminded me that they saw many moths during the camping at night.

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Learned that other butterfly’s food includes:-

• Human sweat (no wonder sometime butterfly lands on our hand)
• Turtle tears
• Tree sap
• Mud puddles
• Rotting fruit

http://www.scholastic.com/discovermore/readers/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/conservation/6167257/Eco-Hero-Clive-Farrell-the-butterfly-conservator.html

Session 2: Butterflies Observation

Hin caught many butterflies and let them fly freely in the hall. He even brought one upstairs into his room, Kin imitated his brother but his butterfly flew away after landed on his hand for a while.

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Hin and Kin caught butterflies in our garden once we reached home. Helped them to setup up a butterflies farm by using the laundry bag and mini table.

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Hin caught a dragonfly and put it into the mini butterfly farm.

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Kin transferred the yellow butterfly caught from durian booth @ Raub to our butterflies farm.
I put a slice of apple and a slice of kiwi in the butterflies farm. Saw butterflies landed on the kiwi.

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At 11 pm, Kin asked to goto hotel lobby to catch butterflies, RhinoDad accompanied them while I stayed in the hotel room.

Explained to Him that I am writing a blog article on camping as I received many positive comments on our “camping” photo.

Hin didn’t want me to write blog. When I asked him why, he said he wants me to spend more time with him. Assured him that I only write n blog while they were sleeping.

Hin was “manja” and asked me to go catch butterflies with him. Followed them to an empty garden next to the hotel but found no insect. Returned to the hotel lobby to catch butterflies.

MonkeySons caught more than 10 butterflies n moths. There was one with transparent wings.

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Grabbed 1 pc of watermelon n 1 pc of papaya fr buffet breakfast to bring back for the moths. Hin then grabbed many pieces of them n I helped him to keep in my handbag.

Went back to the hotel room. MonkeySons released all the butterflies n moths and some of them landed on the papaya. Wished them goodbye before leaving.

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Session 4: Drawing