Monarch Butterfly

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Monarch Butterfly Habitat &
Conservation Posters
ICUN Red List
Habitat Loss fact sheet
Save the Monarchs Poster Activity
Conservation Information Cards and
Worksheet
Silhouette Habitat Art Project
If I Found a Monarch Egg
Writing Project

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Booklist
Monarch Butterfly Fact Sheets
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle Resources (flashcards, writing activities, life cycle wheel
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Monarch Butterfly Anatomy (anatomy labeling sheets, writing and drawing prompt &
anatomy fact sheets)
Monarch Butterfly Habitat & Conservation (habitat fact sheets, conservation fact
sheets & silhouette habitat art activity)
Monarch Butterfly Taxonomy( taxonomy fact sheets & review & insect classification
worksheet)
Monarch Butterfly Diet (anatomy posters, fact sheet & coloring page)
Monarch Butterfly Migration & Maps (fact sheets, Oyamel Fir Forest fact sheets,
posters, writing prompt & coloring pages)
Monarch Butterfly Playmat & Coloring
Monarch Butterfly Nature Journal
Monarch Butterfly Stem & Art( stained glass butterfly craft, static wings experiment,
felt monarch butterfly craft & monarch banner)
Monarch Butterfly Recipes (bowtie pasta salad, butterfly toast & butterfly garden
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 Extension Activities
Create:Use the coloring pages to create your own beautiful
monarch life cycle art.

Option 1 - Use watercolors to paint the drawings.

Option 2 - Carefully cut out the white parts of the
drawings and glue tissue paper or kits paper to make
window transparencies.

Read about butterflies: All the books are available for purchase on Amazon or check Youtube for
videos of the books being read. Some have links below to scan or click to
hear the story being read aloud.

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Monarch Butterfly

Habitat & Conservation

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 Monarch Habitats

Monarchs are found in many

areas, from fields, to gardens to
forests and even on the side of
the road. As long as there is
ample vegetation, a monarch will
make its habitat in many places.

Milkweed and
other flower
plants are the
most important
parts of a
monarchs habitat.

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 Monarch
Butterfly
The adult Monarch butterfly feeds on
nectar and they lay eggs on milkweed
Habitat
plants. Many people plant milkweed
plants just to help Monarchs breed!

The adult butterfly comes from a

chrysalis, but only with great
struggle. This struggle is necessary!
It wrings liquid out of the butterflies
wings, drying the wings out and
allowing butterflies to fly.

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The IUCN RED LIST
The International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) keeps a “Red List of Threatened Species.” This In July 2022 the
list consists of 7 levels that demonstrate the severity migratory species of
and causes of a species threat of extinction. Monarch Butterfly
were classed as
ENDANGERED due to
habitat fragmentation

LC "Least Concern" - population is stable and

unlikely to face extinction in the near future.
and loss as well as
pesticides and disease.

NT
"Near Threatened" - close to qualifying or will likely
qualify in the near future.
I'm here!

VU
"Vulnerable" - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

"Endangered" - facing a VERY high risk of extinction in

EN the wild.

CR
"Critically Endangered" - facing an EXTREMELY high
risk of extinction in the wild. Can you list any animals that
you know are extinct here?

"Extinct in the wild" - known only to survive in

EW captivity, cultivation or well outside its natural range.

"Extinct" - no reasonable doubt that the last individual of

EX the species has died. It cannot ever be re-established on
earth.

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Habitat
Loss
When we learn about something we can act on the
knowledge and make choices that incite change.

One of the main issues facing monarchs is habitat fragmentation and loss. Fragmentation means that there
are big gaps in their habitat due to urbanization (city growth) and farming (clearing land). Monarchs are a
plant specific species meaning that they always lay their eggs on the same type of plant and their caterpillars
only eat one type of plant. This plant is milkweed. All areas have native species of milkweed but it is often
seen as a weed (hence the name although the notion of "weeds" is a human invention and all plants actually
have purpose and are beautiful) and therefore eradicated. As milkweed is removed, the monarchs suffer.
Additionally, many people use pesticides and herbicides (herb - grass, non woody plant + cide - kill) which are
toxic and deadly to monarchs.

Humans can slow the decline of monarch populations in several ways:

Plant native species of milkweed on your property
Cease using pesticides and herbicides on your
property

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Petition your town/city/region to plant milkweed
and cease spraying
Help save Grasslands

CREATE A POSTER
On the next page, create an educational poster that
informs readers of ONE way that they can help save the
monarch butterfly. Your poster should include:
A catchy headline
A picture of a monarch butterfly
One actionable step that people can take to help
protect the monarch population.

Draw your own images or use some of the illustrations to

cut out and use as collage items.

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 We can help! We can help!

Save the Monarchs Save the Monarchs

Start a Petition: Don’t use pesticides:

Petition your Stop using herbicides

town/city/region to and pesticides on your
plant milkweed and property. While you may
cease spraying

X
want to use insecticides
harmful pesticides to keep other pests at
that endanger bay, these chemicals
Monarchs can be extremely
harmful and even lethal
to Monarchs.

we can help we can help

Save the Monarchs Save the Monarchs
Plant Milkweed
Report Monarch Sightings
Planting
milkweed and If you live in North America, you can
other flowers that help scientists monitor Monarch
Monarch like is a populations and migration.
great way to
increase the Report your sightings at Journey
monarch's North
habitat and food https://journeynorth.org/monarchs
source.
 Conservation
Use the prompts to share some ways you can help preserve Monarch
habitat.

Stop Reduce Increase

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 Silhouette Habitat
Silhouette: A silhouette is an outline of an object that is created when it is lit from behind
(backlit).

Habitat: The natural home or environment of an animal, or other living thing.

Create Silhouette Habitat Art

Print one of the butterfly silhouettes on the next two pages, and fill in the shape with
a drawing of the type of habitat where they make their home or the food they eat.

This butterfly has an abdomen with lines like

a butterfly egg. It also has flowers in its
wings to show its diet!

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If I found a Monarch egg...

My egg Illustration

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If I found a Monarch egg...

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