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Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising thelarge island continent of Australia, the island of Tasmania andnumerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Australia has six states, each of which has their own democraticparliament -- New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia,Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. Australia also hastwo major mainland territories -- the Northern Territory and theAustralian Capital Territory (which contains Australia's capitalcity of Canberra).

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The tadpoles turn

into Froglets. The bodyshrinks and legs form.

The Froglet's tail shrinks, thelungs develop and the back legs

grow and then we have aFrog.

Amphibians must shed their skinas they grow. Usually the shedskin is eaten. Yum!

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e Monarch Butterfly

naus plexippus

ase note: The photos on this page have come fromart CD's which allow use on educational internet sites

d in school projects or they have been contributed bywers.

u are free to use all of it in book reports or for yoursonal website.

e KidZone Bibliography for more information. Photo of a Monarch butterfly on milkwee

Photo of a Milkweed Plant

The monarch butterfly is sometimes calledthe "milkweed butterfly" because its larvaeeat the plant. In fact, milkweed is the onlything the larvae can eat! If you'd like toattract monarchs to your garden, you can tplanting milkweed (if you live in the rightarea). You can purchase milkweed seedonline from Butterfly Encounters(closewindow when done purchasing to return to thisscreen)

Adult female monarchs lay their eggs on thunderside of milkweed leaves. These egghatch, depending on temperature, in three twelve days.

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e larvae feed on the plant leaves for about twoeks and develop into caterpillars about 2hes long.

Photo of a monarch caterpillarthanks to Tanya for sending this in!

nks so much to Keren for sharing this picture of a Monarch pupafectionately know as "Billy Bunny". Check out the whole story.

We also have aphoto story provided by Linda.

After awhile, the caterpillars attachthemselves head down to a convenient twthey shed their outer skin and begin thetransformation into a pupa (or chrysalis), aprocess which is completed in a matter ofhours.

The pupa resembles a waxy, jade vase anbecomes increasingly transparent as the

process progresses. The caterpillarcompletes the miraculous transformation ina beautiful adult butterfly in about twoweeks.

You can see photos of the entire process oa monarch butterfly emerging from itschrysalis at photo story provided by Linda.

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Can you see the difference?

Thebutterflyto the left

is theViceroyButterfly(Limenitisarchippus)

He'sevolved tolook likethe

poisonousmonarchto theright sothatpredatorswill avoidhim too!

Still can't tell them apart? Notice that black stripe on the bottom wingsof the Viceroy. That's the give-away! It's easily seen in the photos, butbirds flying overhead looking for lunch cannot distinguish between thetwo.

Scientific genus and species: Danaus plexippus

Class: Insecta (insects) Order: Lepidoptera (butterflies) Family: Danaidae (Milkweed butterfly family)

Genus: Danaus Species:plexippus

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