Interesting Facts/ Few lines on Butterfly

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The butterfly is a beautiful and colorful insect with two pairs of scale covered wings.
There are more than 17,000 kinds of butterflies in the world.
Butterflies are good fliers and only fly during the day.
Butterflies rest with their wings held together vertically above the back over the body.

Butterflies have three basic parts like other insects: the head, thorax and abdomen.
They have slender bodies covered with tiny sensory hairs.
They also have two pairs of large, scaly wings, which are triangular in shape. They have a pair of forewings and another pair of hind wings supported by veins.
Their brightly multi-colored wings of butterflies are a feast of colors. They look so attractive, fascinating and heavenly because of these colors.
Butterflies fly, flutter and enjoy nectar on the flowers at day time.
Butterflies have compound eyes and a tube-like organ in the mouth for sucking in liquid. Butterflies usually feed on nectar from plants. However, some feed on rotting fruits to sip nutrients from the soil.
They have a keen sense of taste, smell and sight. They have smelling organs on their antennae. They have noses to smell located on their feet.
Butterflies “taste” with their feet to find out whether the leaf they are sitting on is acceptable for laying eggs and being their caterpillars’ food.
They also have scents which play a double purpose of attracting the opposite sex and sending away the predators.
A group of butterflies is called a flutter.

Butterflies are found almost everywhere in the world and are native to all continents except Antarctica.
They can survive in all types of environments: hot or cold, dry or moist, at sea level or high in the mountains.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 30 degree Celsius.

Queen Alexandra’s birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world, having a wingspan of 30 centimeters.
It is native to the rainforests of northern Papua New Guinea and is an endangered species.
The western pygmy blue butterfly is the smallest butterfly in the world and is found in coastal regions throughout the southern United States.

Butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis.
They begin their existence with eggs. The eggs hatch into larvae called caterpillars.
The caterpillar grows quickly by feeding on plant leaves.
Inside the cocoon there is a constant change and transformation. When the metamorphosis is complete, the cocoon splits open and the young butterfly emerges.
The caterpillar develops into a cocoon.
It may take from a few days to many months for the butterfly to develop to adulthood from an egg.

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