A Place for Butterflies: Criss Cross

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Across

  • 4. A dense group of bushes or trees
  • 6. Butterflies' hatch from eggs and become
  • 9. Spraying _____ on plants can harm butterflies who also like those plants
  • 10. Butterflies start as _____, layed by their mother
  • 12. People can work to ___ wild places to help butterfly populations.

Down

  • 1. Bright orange and black butterflies named after royalty
  • 2. Caterpillars go into the pupa stage and live in a _____.
  • 3. A _____ emerges from a Chrysalis
  • 5. The Schaus _____ butterflies are an endagered species that live in southern Florida.
  • 7. The Palos _____ Blue Butterfly nearly disappeared from California until people planted sunflowers and deerweed for them.
  • 8. Monach butterflies only lay eggs on _____ plants.
  • 11. The Mitchell _____ butterflies are an endagered species that live in the eastern United States.

Word Bank

swallowtail
saytr
thicket
restore
verdes
monarch
milkweed
pesticides
eggs
caterpillars
chrysalis
butterfly