Photography
New Articles
Documentaries
Educational Information (life Cycle, Species, etc.)
Primary/Secondary Reseach
Similar Ideas/Existing
Contextual - Children's Learning and books
Critical - Designers, Typography, Layout
Highlighted Notes - Initial Ideas
Book Research
Facts/Statistics
- Butterflies are widely used as symbols, of beauty and fragility of nature, but also of freedom and harmony.
- Over half of the resident species in Britain and Ireland are threatened.
- Butterflies are extremely sensitive to environmental change.
- Reals Wood White has changed it’s name to Cryptic Wood White.
- Captive foreign bread butterflies are illegal.
- Butterfly’s Conservation’s policy on collecting, breeding and photography.
- http://butterfly-conservation.org/files/bc-policy_collecting-breeding-photography-2010.pdf
- There are continuing sightings of unusual species due to unusual or changing weather patterns.
- 59 species to see in Britain and sometimes more which travel from Europe.
- The more we learn, the more action can be taken to safeguard butterflies futures.
- Continuing decline of so many species is a warning of our diminishing countryside.
- Conserving butterflies, you have to consider the whole environment and how best to manage and care for it.
- These creatures are there for all of us to enjoy, if only you take the time to look.
- Butterflies and moths are part of 165,000 insects known as Lepidoptera; In greek meaning scale and wing.
- Butterflies have their greatest diversity in the tropics.
- Butterflies have different antennas to moths, with clubbed ends.
- A butterfly sleeps with it’s wings held tightly together.
- Butterflies rarely fly at night.
- A book where things are hidden until you look carefully *
- A flap book for children*
Life Cycle
- Egg (Ovum) - Caterpillar (Larva) - Chrysalis (Pupa) - Emergence - Newly Emerged Adult (Imago)
Egg
- Come in many shapes and sizes.
- A hard outer case, containing the embryo.
- Once fully formed, the caterpillar chews it’s way out of the egg.
- The eggs are laid close to the plants on which the caterpillar will feed.
- Caterpillar
- Come in many shapes and sizes.
- Their look and behaviour is designed to maximise their chances of survival.
- Many are hairy and spiny.
- Some are poisonous.
- Stay in groups, can fall victim to birds and spiders.
- They have preferential plants which they feed on.
- When fully grown the caterpillar anchors itself firmly and sheds it’s skin to reveal a soft casing and enters it’s third stage as the chrysalis.
- Chrysalis
- It is soft and then hardens and is well camouflaged.
- The cells are miraculously rearranged, with it’s new wings crushed tightly within the chrysalis.
- This stage is known as pupation.
- The casing bursts and the wings expand as fluid is pumped into their veins.
- Adult
- Takes up to an hour to expand it’s wings and be strong enough for flight.
- It then moves off to feed, find a mate and reproduce.
- Many have a very short life, as brief as 4 or 5 days.
- Brimstone can live up to 10 months.
- Butterflies do not grow once they have emerged.
- Males produce scents which attract females. In most species the wing patterns are very different between male and females.
- The main threat to adult butterflies is predation.
- *Hungry Caterpillar*- Eric Carle
- *Flap book* - Interactive
- *Puzzles and Quizzes*
References
Websites
Book/Graphic Design
Books
Book/Graphic Design
Jan Tschichold - The form of the book
Illustrating Children’s Books - Martin Salisbury
Illustration - A theoretical and contextual perspective - Alan Male
The Role of Illustration - Storytelling
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
Picture This, How Pictures Work - Molly Bang
Butterfly Books
The Butterfly isles - Patrick Barkham
Britain’s Butterflies - David Newland - Robert Still
Butterflies, Caterpillars and Chrysalides - Octopus
JA Thomas, RSNC Butterflies of the British Isles
Butterflies and day flying moths of Britain and Europe - Collins
Children’s Nature Books
Meadow, Look Closer, Barbara Taylor
The Great Wildlife Search, Usbourne
Why do Plants grow in spring, stepping stones
Wildlife Garden, Martyn Cox
The Natural World, Southwestern
Wildlife through the year
Butterfly Websites
http://butterfly-conservation.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly
http://www.equip.org/article/darwin-vs-beauty-explaining-away-butterfly/
http://www.ukbms.org/
http://www.somersetwildlife.org/Adopt_a_Butterfly.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy5-88N2f1gIVCoGyCh0afwu6EAAYASAAEgKqn_D_BwE
http://www.thebutterflysite.com/
http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/
http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/
http://butterfly-conservation.org/
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/sensational-butterflies-bringing-the-jungle-to-london.html
News Articles
https://onthewight.com/big-butterfly-count-2017-sir-davids-appeal-for-islanders-to-take-part/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/14/worlds-largest-butterfly-survey-aims-to-assess-apparent-spike-in-british-numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/butterflies
https://www.livescience.com/52960-butterfly-named-after-david-attenborough.html
https://www.livescience.com/52513-monarch-butterflies-migration-photos.html
https://www.livescience.com/51797-butterflies-disappear-as-climate-changes.html
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/butterflies-and-moths?mcubz=0
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