West Routt Library District

Describes the life cycle, body parts, and behavior of the monarch butterfly, and includes instructions on how to raise a monarch.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days. On board pages.

When Angelina the mouse finds a pink butterfly with a twisted leg, she is determined to look after it and keep it forever until a surprising turn of events sets the butterfly free.

Photographs and text explore the behavior and life cycles of butterflies and moths, examining mating rituals, camouflage, habitat, growth from pupa to larva to adult, and other aspects.

Decreases in the abundance, distribution and diversity of animal species in recent decades have been widely documented as species have responded to land-use pressures such as urban expansion, the alteration of habitat structure from the spread of nonnative plants and climate change. The City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) has been surveying butterfly communities in 18 transects in five different years. The goal of this document is...