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Show DAVIS COUNTY Try these activities: Draw and color a picture of a butterfly. Sit quietly outside, or at a window. Make a list of all the animals you see Look for pictures of natural resources in the newspaper. Cut them out and use them to make a poster about conservation. Look for a news story about habitat, resources, or conservation. Utah Association of Conservation Districts' gyo) Butterflies are amazing. Invite Butterflies to visit Your Yard ready, it forms a chrysalis around itself. While it is in the chrysalis, it changes into a butterfly. This change Is called a metamorphosis. Butterflies drink nectar from flowers. You can Invite butterflies to your yard by the caterpillar Butterflies need water, food and shelter. You can make your yard a place where butterflies like to be by giving them what they need, planting flowers. They like asters, marigolds, purple coneflowers, black-eye- d Susans, zinnias. It help to plant large groups of colorful flowers They are beautiful and helpful. People have studied butterflies for thousands of years, but we're just now beginning to understand their importance to human beings. All living creatures on our planet Including people, depend on plants for food. Most plants depend on insects to fertilize their seeds by carrying pollen from flower to flower. Butterflies gather pollen on their bodies as they sip nectar, carrying It with them from plant to plant. Butterflies and moths pollinate more plants than any other insect except the bee. (From The Butterfly Book, by together. caterpillar has 4,000 muscles. A human being has 792. im Nt a. mo A mlfflC a Butterflies suck wet soil for fluids. It Is called "puddling." You can attract them by making a small puddle near your flowers. Butterflies can only fly when d they are warm. But a flat, stone in the sunlight in your garden. They will sit on it to bask in the warm sunshine. salts and especially important to Monanchs. Other plants butterflies like to lay eggs on Include butterfly weed, dill, pussy willow, violets, and dark-colore- Hollyhocks. For two to four weeks, grow. When What runs but never walks? Water. How did the farmer fix his With a cabbage patch. jeans? than any other creature earth. Butterflies can't fly if their body on Color By can Join the Utah Association of Conservation Districts In caring for our soil, water, plants and animals (natural resources), In making our backyards healthier, It makes the whole world a better place to live. You 1 (The Iset fourtmjzlng fgett C i960 by NB Inc.) Backyard Butterfly Club Membership For an annual membership fee of $20 members will receive: a Backyard Butterfly Club lapel pin a Backyard Conservation booklet and bookmark a quarterly UACD newsletter with valuable coupons seed packets Famllylndlvldual of club be used to fund hande-o- n membership conservation education project e for echool children In Utah. The proceede will o Yes, sign me up for the Backyard Butterfly Club! I want to Conserve water. 'Hater your plants, but don't give them more than they need. Make sure your sprinklers are set right so you don't water the sidewalk or driveway. Sweep your walks and driveway Instead of spraying them with a hose, Don't throw It all away. Be careful of what you buy so that you don't make too much trash. Try to use things Mix grass clippings and fruit and vegetable scraps In a pile. Backyard Butterfly not Just about butterflies It's about To conserve conservation. Is take care of to something It or use It wisely. We all need to conserve our resources. Resources are things we get from nature, such as water, soil, plants, air and sunlight. All living things, Including people, need these resources to stay alive. We need resources to grow the food we eat. We need clean water to drink. We use resources to make clothes 2 Green 3 due 4 5 Purple White 6 Brown survive. Start composting. Club Is Yellow bath In your yard. Grow plants that butterflies, birds and other animals need to again. Recycle. The upon request. Numbers: butterflies. The world's largest butterfly Is found In New Guinea. It has a wingspread of about 11 Inches. The ancient Greeks believed that at the time of death, a person's soul left the body In the form of a butterfly. and homes. If we protect and take care of our resources, we won't use them all up or ruin them. Conservation Is for businesses, everyone schools, and families. Here are a few things you and your family can do In your backyard to take care of our resources: Join the Backyard Butterfly Club Classroom Backyard Butterfly Club Membership: For an annual membership fee of $35 school classes will receive: "The Butterfly Book" for your classroom a colorful butterfly poster for your classroom a wooden birdhouse to paint and place In your school yard quarterly Butterfly Club newsletters for your class a Backyard Conservation educational video for your classroom a Backyard Conservation Instructional book for your classroom lesson plans and activity sheets Backyard Conservation bookmarks for each student flower seed packets for each student personal visits from natural resource conservation professionals (A and flowers they walk on with chemical sensors In their feet. A butterfly's eyes can detect light waves that humans can't see. They see more colors CMSraiifi) Why do cows like being told jokes? They like being amoosedi Backyard Butterfly Club fridge magnet conservation activity and game sheets a nice thank you gift CJ CONSERVATION, BACKYARD, BUTTERFLY, CLUB. 20,000 different kinds of plants. Butterflies lay eggs on plants that caterpillars need to eat. Milk week Is CO Amazing Butterfly Facts A butterfly's antennae can sense wind speed and direction. Butterflies also use their antennae to "smell" flowers. Butterflies "taste" the leaves temperature Is less than B6' F. There are between 15,000 and as butterfly starts Its caterpillar. When It hatches out of Its egg, they eat the leaves of life A caterpillars eat and Kersten Hamilton) Is U Words that remind us of conservation are hidden in the letter block below. Try to find these words: SUN, SOIL, WATER, AIR, FLOWERS, NECTAR, HABITAT, They will decompose and make compost. Compost looks and feels like soil. It can man Is making compost In a box. This your teeth. You may be able to work with teachers to start a conservation project at school. Students can learn about animals and resources by creating gardens and habitats In the echool yard. . help your garden grow. Mulch. Cover the soil around trees and plants with grass clippings or dry leaves. It will keep the soil moist and Plant trees. Trees help clean the air we breath. Trees make great homes for animals. Trees stop the wind from blowing soil away. Planting trees near buildings keeps the buildings cool. Trees are beautiful. things to help animals. Put up a bird house or bird Vo healthy. You can help conserve resources even If you don't have a yard. You can grow plants In window boxes and pots. You can recycle. You can be careful not to let the water run when you brush flower support conservation of Utah's natural resources. o Enclosed is my o Enclosed Is my $20 Indiv, Family Membership fee $35 Classroom Membership fee Name Address Phone 5chool (if class membership) Utah Association of Conservation Districts Local Boards Weber LaMar DeFries, Chair Phil Green, Supervisor Eugene Bailey, Supervisor Glynn F. Wayment, Treasurer-ClerKeven Stratford, Supervisor k Davis E. Harris Adams, Vice Chair Kurt Fowers Jared R. Call, Treasurer Win. "Bill" Rigby, UACD President Ben A. Thurgood, Chair Morgan Frank W. EducationCo mm unity Outreach Bohman, Vice Chair Dee Waldron, Zone 2 USCC Max Wilkinson Fred Thurston, Roger Stuart, Supervisor Chair-Treasur- er Sherri Einfeldt 1670 W. 200 N. Kaysville, UT 84037 Fax Ph. einfeldtdavis.uswest.net Number of students Backyard Butterfly Club and Conservation Education Proudly Sponsored By Mail membership form and check payable to UACD to: Sherri Einfeldt, UACD Education Specialist r 1670 W. 200 N Kaysville, UT 84037 ' The Fertilizer Specialists NTER MOUNTAIN fABMEBStgl wahwwt cum |