Butterflies and Blooms

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caterpillar

chrysalis

coming out

butterfly

In woods around the world, like Wisconsin’s Northwoods, plants provide food and shelter for lots of animals.

Wood anemone Eastern redbud Western Jacob's ladder

In exchange, insects such as butterflies, carry pollen from one plant to help plants reproduce.

Apollo butterfly

Bees eat nectar from flowers…

and catch pollen on their wings causing them to move it from one plant to another.

Honey bee

Summer

The seasons of the woods

Spring

Winter Autumn

Butterflies depend on certain plants to complete

metamorphosis.

In Wisconsin’s Northwoodsthese butterflies …

… depend on these flowers to survive.

Monarch butterfly Swamp metalmark Northern blue butterfly

Dwarf milkweed Marsh marigold Dwarf bilberry

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Great Basin Fritillary

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Monarch Butterfly

milkweed

Sagebrush Checkerspot

Rabbit Brush