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Caroline Kornbrek, Stony Brook School

Somerset County

Image of Silver-bordered Fritillary Butterfly. Somerset County.Silver-bordered Fritillary Butterfly. Somerset County. Caroline Kornbrek

Saving Nymphalidae

What would the summer be with out butterflies? Can you imagine a whole summer without those tiny winged creatures flying over your head making you feel awestruck; them flying to your flowers sipping nectar? The enchantment that makes you want to fly with them. The Nymphalidae can not soar if it is extinct. In the Nymphalidae family, the Fritillary is threatened. Who will save them? Save them from their dreaded future?

I am in the Nymphalidae family, I am a Fritillary butterfly. My colors are outlined with silver, a crown around my wings. You wouldn’t want to kill the queen would you? So don’t kill me. I represent delicacy, the freedom to fly, and true beauty. Let me fly!

I am very important to the environment. I pollinate flowers and make plants live to give off oxygen for you to breathe. Also, have you ever thought about the food chain? If we start to die you might!! Save us and you will save yourself and the world. Stop poisoning the plants that I drink nectar from Stop throwing trash into our meadows and bogs. We are living creatures, respect us!

How I love to soar over a bog with flowers that I love in bloom, like the spikelet, inflorescences, and sedge flowers. Having this life be safe would be my dream. Stop poisoning our homes for if you don’t, this dream will be gone and it will affect you.

I do not have to be a fortune teller to know that your future is not good. Bags of garbage surround the very places where you walk. Water supplies run low because of toxins polluting them. There could be possibly no creatures left on earth. Do you really want to do that to yourself? Save your self now. Save the world! Save us!

Written by: Caroline Kornbrek

Stony Brook School, Branchburg

Teacher: Mrs. Burke