The Blue Morpho Butterfly

This Report is here to tell you about the bright blue insect that will amaze you with the unknown. This three parted insect is a very glamorous creature. Its scientific name is Morpho Didius. Does that sound appealing to you, read on to find out more.

What is it and what does it look like?                                                                                    The Blue Morpho Butterfly is on of the largest butterflies in creation, its bright  blue wings make them very easy to spot. It has 6 black legs like any other insect, the butterfly has 4 super delicate wings that are pretty sea-through and is sometimes a bit stinky cause of what it eats. Its three parts are classificated as the head the thorax and the abdomen which in every day words means the head the tummy and the bottom half. On its wings you will see faint black lines that create some sort of pattern on each wing like this picture here.

Where can you find it?

The Blue Morpho Butterfly is mostly found in South America, Mexico, and Central America, which is closer to the equator than any place like Europe or Great Brittan. You can find the adult Morpho mostly on the forest floor unless it is trying to find a mate, however the young Morphos will go all layers to try and find a girlfriend. Since this butterfly only has 115 days to live, they need to make the most of it. But once it has found another butterfly  it will live the rest of there life on the forest floor. Sadly they don’t have weddings!

How has it adapted to survive?

Living in the rainforest is hard for the butterflies and they need to make sure they get a long lifespan. On average they live up to about 115 days which is about 3 months 3 weeks and 2 days. The Blue Morpho Butterfly isn’t a big fan of the brightness so when he can’t really see because of the scorching hot sun, the butterfly will cover its eyes over with its wings and that is 1 adaptation to this insect. The Blue Morpho is brightly coloured  so that insects and animals can see them, but mostly that’s not a good thing because they could be eaten easily, just remember there quick and speedy so they have a chance to fly away.

P7 are having a refreshment stall on the 23rd & 24th of November at the parents evening. It will be upstairs in Jedderfield (the music room). There will be tea, coffee, hot chocolate, fair trade chocolate (heroes).  All the products we sell will be 100% fair trade. Be sure to bring £1-£1.50 so you can be part of helping hundreds of people in not so fortunate countries. We hope to see you soon.

.Poison dart frogs grow to be 1-2 inches long.
.The poison dart frog earned its name because hunters dipped their arrows in poison.
.They live in trees in the central and south American rainforests.
.There colourful to warn predators.
.Blue poison dart frogs are endangered because they are being put in pet markets.
.They prey on invertebrates but they like to eat ants most.
.They are at risk because of people farming them for their poison.
.Some carry their young on their back also called backpacking and is unique among amphibians.
.Scientists are unsure how poisoness they are.
.medications are being made to cure poison dart frog stings one has already been developed.
.Their poison can kill ten gown men.

In class we have been learning about literary features. Use this link and watch ‘Made of More’ The Latest Guinness Advert (the one with the cloud). Write an example of a simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification , onomatopoeia and imagery that would apply to the cloud in the clip. Due 28th Nov.

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We have been looking at Rainforests as our topic and we decided to combine our topic with our homework. We have lots of things as homework that we can choose from. One of them was making a poster of an endangered rainforest creature or make a short movie trailer about the rainforest or making a song about the rainforest.  We are enjoying our topic and getting to choose what to do for homework  .

by Poppy, Sam and Nicole

Here is a link to see Arran’s documentary https://youtu.be/0lWtKw1Xvv8

Some scorpions are deadly but not all and this one isn’t or is it? READ ON IF YOU DARE!!!!!

WHERE DOES IT LIVE?
it lives in the Australian rainforests.

WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE

The rainforest scorpion has eight legs like a spider. Its exoskeleton can have four different colours- black,brown,yellow and green. Its claws are very large to catch its prey.
HOW DOES IT SURVIVE
A scorpion can change its food limit and eat only one insect a year. It sheds its skin so it can grow and hunt bigger prey. its body is a shield since its boneless. If needed a scorpion will eat another to survive. The scorpion needs little energy to survive that is very useful because it best sees at night. For safety mother scorpion ride their mothers back for one week
HOW DOES IT CATCH ITS PREY
The scorpion grabs its prey and paralyzes it with its stinger They also ambush their prey for an easy dinner.
This report should of told a lot about the rainforest scorpion, what do you think?

In class we have been learning French and this is my family in French.

Ma mere or ma maman for mum.

mon  Pere or mon  papa for dad .

ma soeur for sister.

mon frere for brother.

ma grand mere or ma mamie for gran.

Mon grand Pere or mon papi.

I hope you know your family in French .

Do you know that people are cutting trees,

Do you know that we are losing the rainforests,

Do you know that p6a are trying to help,

Do you know that we are losing half of our animals,

There is four floors there is the Emergent layer,

Also Canopy, Understory and the Forest Floor,

We do not want to lose all of our animals,

(Everyone) Rainforests Rainforest we do not want to lose them,

We love the Rainforests yeah,

We will promise we will take care of the Rainforest ok

YIPEE

By Bethany

Today Fionn’s dad came to visit us to tell us about the time that he spent in the rainforest in Borneo. Fionn’s dad was there when he was Fionn’s age and he told us about his memories and he brought in some of the things that he had from his time there. We were especially interested in the blow pipe and the arrows that you would put into it.
Thank Mr Hollingsbee for giving up your time and giving us an interesting talk.