The Variety of Butterflies and Moths

• Peacock Butterfly Information sheet
• Butterfly Race Game - see which player/butterfly can overcome all the dangers and problems that beset them to grow to adulthood first
• Make a Butterfly Mobile
• Butterfly Wordsearch
• Two more Butterfly Wordsearches
• Guidance notes for a school garden or wild area
• Guidance notes - Useful larval food plants and butterfly/moth nectar plants
• Butterfly Quiz 1. Use the internet to find out about some of the common species of butterflies to be seen in your garden or school grounds.
• Click here to see the answers to Quiz 1.

The Lifecycles of Butterflies and Moths

• The Life Cycle of the Small Tortoiseshell butterfly
• The Lifecycle of the Red Admiral Butterfly
• The Lifecycle of the Brimstone Butterfly
• The Lifecycle of the Swallowtail Butterfly
• Diagrams showing stages in the Lifecycle of the Large White Butterfly
• Make a mobile of the lifecycle of a Butterfly part 1
• Make a mobile of the lifecycle of a Butterfly part 2
• Breeding Butterflies in the classroom - guidance notes 1
• Breeding Butterflies in the classroom - guidance notes 2
• Butterfly Quiz 2 - Larval Foodplants
• Butterfly Quiz 3 - What are the differences between adult and larva?

Investigating Butterflies and Moths in their Habitats

• Flight Times of UK Butterfly speciesThis chart shows which butterflies are in their adult stage and flying during each month of the year.
• Butterfly and Dayflying Moth survey of the school grounds or green area
• Butterfly and Day-flying moth surveys - 'rules' for a fair survey
• Butterfly Identification charts - produced by the Cheshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation Print out these pdf's together - this is a good way of combining wildlife studies and number work!
• Alners Gorse Butterfly Survey results 2005-2006 linked to
• Alners Gorse Butterfly Survey results 05-06 questions
• List of Common Moths in an Excel table
• Moth trapping results for Cerne Abbas - two sites compared
• Butterfly Nectaring and larval Foodplants
• Butterfly and Moth larval foodplants Activity sheet
• Butterfly Ecology Quiz sheet Print off this exercise sheet - have a go at linking these butterflies to their habitats and the foodplants of their larvae.