Leps in French

[Donald Davis]

Here's a few words that your students may be able to relate to. French words
are given male or female classification - not neutral for things or objects as
in English.

Le papillon de nuit (M - masculine word) sounds familiar for moths

For cocoon, try "le cocon", but for chrysalis (ie monarch butterfly) try "le
chrysalide". There may very well be a word for "pupa". I just don't know it.

Caterpillar is la chenille (F - female word). But larva, I think, is la larve.

Egg is l'oeuf (masculine)

Bon chance!

Don Davis
Toronto, ON