A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. Below you will find why butterflies gather together, fun facts and other animals with the same group name.
Say the word together, then read two quick facts to remember it.
A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. Say it slowly and clap for each part of the word.
Being in a kaleidoscope helps butterflies stay safe, find food and look after their young.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Learn these together with the butterfly. Tap a name to hear it.
A group of monarch butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. Monarch butterflies have bright orange and black wings. Every fall, many fly all the way from Canada and the US to Mexico.
Group: kaleidoscope Read monarch butterfly factsA group of Queen Alexandra’s birdwings is called a kaleidoscope. This is the biggest butterfly in the world. It lives only in a small patch of rainforest in Papua New Guinea.
Group: kaleidoscope Read Queen Alexandra’s birdwing factsA group of viceroy butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. Viceroy butterflies are orange and black and look a lot like monarchs. Birds often leave them alone because they taste bad.
Group: kaleidoscope Read viceroy butterfly factsA group of zebra swallowtails is called a kaleidoscope. Zebra swallowtails are butterflies with black and white stripes and long tails on their back wings. Their caterpillars eat the leaves of pawpaw trees.
Group: kaleidoscope Read zebra swallowtail factsA tiny game to check what stuck. Read the question out loud and let your little one tap the answer.
A group of butterflies is called a kaleidoscope. A butterfly starts life as an egg, then a caterpillar, then a chrysalis.
A baby butterfly is called a caterpillar.
Many butterflies spend time in kaleidoscopes, especially to find food or raise babies. Butterflies taste with their feet.
Butterflies eat flower nectar.
Butterflies live in gardens and meadows worldwide.
Many group names are hundreds of years old. People made them up to describe how the animals look, sound or act together.
