Butterflies are popular, well-known insects with large, colorful wings covered with tiny scales. Butterflies are beautiful.There exist approximately 160,000 different species of butterflies in the world! During its life cycle, a butterfly undergoes a complete metamorphosis during which it changes from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly.
Butterflies are one of our very favorite insects.Butterflies are very good fliers.Butterflies are found worldwide, even above the Arctic Circle, but they do not occur on Antarctica.Butterflies can only fly if their body temperature is above 86 degrees.Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Butterflies have all the sense we have (sight, smell, hearing, touch and taste), but they rely mostly on smell, touch and taste.Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.Butterflies sun themselves to warm up in cool weather. As butterflies age, the color of the wings fades and the wings become ragged.Butterflies and moths are the only insects that have scales.
Butterflies are active during the day and are brightly colored. Their bodies are thin and hairless, while most moths have plump and furry bodies.Butterflies fly during the day.Butterflies have their skeleton on the outside of their body. This is to protect them. It keeps the water inside of their body. This is good because they do not dry out.The wings of a butterfly are transparent. These give their wings color. This is why they do not look transparent to us.
Butterflies go through a life cycle. There are four stages. The first stage is the eggs. This is where a girl butterfly lays eggs. She lays them on a leaf. The second stage is the caterpillar. This is where the eggs hatch. It takes about five days for the eggs to hatch.It also grows really fast. Once it is all the way grown, the third stage starts. This stage is the chrysalis. The caterpillar makes a chrysalis. Inside the chrysalis, it starts to change. It soon changes into a butterfly. Once the caterpillar has changed into a butterfly, the fourth stage starts. This is also that last stage in the life cycle. The fourth stage is the butterfly. A butterfly comes out of the chrysalis.
Butterflies are beautiful, but the process of emerging from the chrysalis and spreading your wings can hurt like fucking hell. But still, you will survive the transformation (over and over again) and you will fly. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.