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The document acknowledges numerous experts and organizations from around the world who contributed information about butterflies. It also dedicates the book to the author's Sri Lankan friend and her father, a sailor who taught her about the natural world. The text and illustrations are copyrighted and manufactured in China, with handlettering by two artists, and the book is intended for children to learn about the life cycle of butterflies.
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Butterfly Is Patient
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2. For my Sri Lankan friend and diviner of codes,
Dilshan Madawala. D. A.
For my fatherFrank J. Carlisle, Jr.the blue-eyed
sailor, who is my source for all things wise and wonderful.
Among other things, he taught me the value of an interest
in the natural world and our place in it. S. L.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Victoria Rock, editor, and Sara Gillingham, book designer,
for their wisdom and dedication to quality in childrens books.
Jeffrey S. Pippen, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University; Nicky Davis, Wild Utah Project, Butterflies
and Moths; Linden Gledhill, photographer, Philadelphia, PA; Adrian Hoskins, LearnAboutButterflies.com, Hampshire,
England; Teh Su Phin, Panang Butterfly Farm, Malaysia; Lizanne Whiteley, Conservation of Butterflies in South Africa;
Robert N. Wiedenmann, Dept. of Entomology, University of Arkansas; Silvia Mecenero, South African Butterfly
Conservation Assessment; Steve Woodhall, President, Lepidopterists Society of Africa; Jean-Claude Petit,
Butterflies of Sangau National Park, Ecuador; Niklas Wahlberg, Dept. of Biology, University of Turku, Finland;
Andr Victor Lucci Freitas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, S o Paulo, Brazil;
Museum Victorias Discovery Centre, Victoria, Australia; Gareth S. Welsh, Butterfly World,
Stockton-on-Tees, England; Thomas Neubauer, ButterflyCorner.net, Germany; John J. Obrycki, Chair,
Dept. of Entomology, University of Kentucky; Halmar Taschner, South African Nursery Assoc.; Melani Hugo,
Butterfly Garden at Ludwigs Rose Farm, Gauteng, South Africa; Tim Loh, British Columbia, Canada
Text 息
2011 by Dianna Aston.
Illustrations 息
2011 by Sylvia Long.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
in any form without written permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aston, Dianna Hutts.
A butterfly is patient / by Dianna Aston ; illustrated by Sylvia Long.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8118-6479-4
1. ButterfliesJuvenile literature. I. Long, Sylvia. II. Title.
QL544.2.A87 2011
595.789dc22
2010008548
Book design by Sara Gillingham.
Handlettered by Anne Robin and Sylvia Long.
The illustrations in this book were rendered in watercolor.
Manufactured by Toppan Leefung, Da Ling Shan Town, Dongguan, China, in December 2010
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This product conforms to CPSIA 2008.
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It begins as an egg beneath an umbrella of leaves,
protected from rain, hidden from creatures that might
harm it . . . until the caterpillar inside chews free
from its egg-casing, tiny, wingless, hungry to grow.
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leaves, eating so much
that it must molt, or
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Once a caterpillar has eaten all that it needs, it creates
a protective covering called a chrysalis. Curled inside the
chrysalis, it is growing wings. Now it is time for
metamorphosis, changing from one form to another.
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9. Butterflies, like bees, help pollinate plants so that they
can reproduce, or make seeds. As a butterfly flits from
flower to flower, sipping nectar, tiny grains of pollen
cling to its body, then fall away onto other flowers. Seeds
are only produced when pollen is transferred between
flowers of the same species. This is called pollination.
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Butterflies use their wings to protect
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birds, lizards, and other insects. Some
butterflies have markings on their wings
called eyespots. Scientists dont know what
they are used forperhaps to scare away
predators or attract mates!
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Wings can help butterflies camouflage,
or hide, themselves in the environment.
One kind of butterfly, the peacock butterfly,
makes a hissing sound by rubbing its
wings together when it is alar med.
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The warning colors of some butterflies wingsyellows,
reds, oranges, whites, and blackstell predators that
they are poisonous or bad-tasting. Monarchs, wanderers,
and pipevine swallowtails eat poisonous plants as
caterpillars so that they become poisonous as adults.
Birds and other insects have learned not to eat them!