Why Butterflies wings change during seasons

This to me is very interesting because I never knew that they did this! This is such a cool way to survive and such a cool way to camouflage. To be able to change the patterns on the wings of a butterfly is absolutely amazing and a very strategic way to survive if you ask me. I have butterfly bushes at my house, one in the front yard and one in the back, so whenever they are in bloom there are butterflies every where

                They have always interested me with how many varieties there are, how delicate their wings must be, how they were all caterpillars at one time, and I even read an article one time about this one type of butterfly that would die if it ever stopped flying and now this! It just goes to show how much interesting things there are just in your own backyard that usually gets overlooked. They change so they wont be prey or they can trick their predators.

                 This clearly relates to science but not so clearly also relates to social studies because of how much butterflies have changed and adapted from different times, even if it was just one season.

                                      Works Cited

Guarino, Ben."Why butterflies’ spots change from season to    

         season." Dodo. Salon. 15 Nov. 2014. Web. 16 Nov. 2014.

 http://www.salon.com/2014/11/15/why_butterflies_spots_change_from_season_to_season_partner/?source=newsletter

Police Officer Saves 100 Baby Sea Turtles From Certain Death

Sea Turtles have recently been in danger more than ever before, and not because of natural causes, because of us, humans. They have been choking on plastic bags, mistaking them for jelly fish, which is a snack they enjoy. Those plastic bags don’t just show up randomly though, we put them there. Another way is baby sea turtles when they first hatch. Naturally only 1 in 1000 live till adult hood, but that is natural, and normally when they first hatch and try to go towards the ocean, they don’t always make it because of other animals.

            But sadly, they don’t go towards the ocean because of the salty sea smell, they go towards the brightest light they see, which should be the moon, and that is how they make it to the sea. But sadly, now that humans have started making resorts along the oceans, it’s not only the moon lighting they see, its artificial light from the buildings and streets, which is brighter than the moon causing them to go that way, away from the sea. Which, I don’t know about you, but that is awful that creatures are dying because of this.

            But they got lucky in this case, and I think that we need more people like this in the world, a police man was on patrol and saw these tiny creatures crawling towards a hotel, away from the ocean. I think that I would have had the same reaction he did, because he grabbed a cardboard box, and grabbed all the little turtles he could find and released them into the Gulf of Mexico, away from the streets. He saved their lives and this makes me happy to know that there are still people like this out there.

            This obviously relates to science, because of them moving towards the lights, but it also relates to geography because of the hotels and cities, showing human development.

Works Cited

Molland, Judy. “Police Officer Saves 100 Baby Sea Turtles From Certain Death.”  Care2. Care2.

            24 Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Nov. 2014.

http://www.care2.com/causes/police-officer-saves-100-baby-sea-turtles-from-certain-death.html