BUTTERFLIES
Insect - Invertebrate - Herbivore
Insect - Invertebrate - Herbivore
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Male: Butterfly
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Female: Butterfly
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Young: Caterpillar, Larva, Pupa, Chrysalis
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BUTTERFLIES
There are 24,000 species of butterflies.
- Have a lifecycle is in four parts:
- - Egg
- - Larva (caterpillars)
- - Pupa (chrysalis)
- - Adult butterfly
- Most caterpillars are herbivores.
- Have four wings.
- Have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses.
- Can only see the colours yellow, green and red.
- A female butterfly has a second stomach attached to its vagina.
- Have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, but can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
- Feed on nectar from flowers and in order to supplement this diet, it will occasionally sip from mud puddles.
- Taste with their feet.
- Can fly at 12 miles per hour.
- Cannot fly if its body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
- A newly emerged butterfly cannot fly.
- The original name for Butterflies was actually 'fluttery'.
- Have hairs on their wings used to detect changes in air pressure.