What is the beauty of a butterfly?
Butterflies are self propelled flowers. Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.
How would you describe butterflies?
Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The butterfly’s body is covered by tiny sensory hairs. The four wings and the six legs of the butterfly are attached to the thorax.
How do you describe butterflies flying?
Rather than flapping their wings up and down like birds, butterflies contract their bodies making a slanted figure eight pattern with their wings. As the butterfly’s body contracts, the motion pushes air under their wings, effectively propelling it through the air.
What can you say about butterfly life cycle?
The life cycle of a butterfly is truly amazing. Butterflies have four life stages, the egg, the larva (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis), and the adult butterfly. Each of the four stages are very unique to individual species of butterflies which is part of what makes watching and raising butterflies so much fun.
What is so special about a butterfly?
We know butterflies as perhaps the most colorful, vibrant insects around! Well, a butterfly’s wings are covered by thousands of tiny scales, and these scales reflect light in different colors. As a butterfly ages, scales fall off the wings, leaving spots of transparency where the chitin layer is exposed.
What do you feed a butterfly?
There are many types of food that will feed butterflies well. Fruit juice, 15% honey water, 15% sugar water, or Gatorade are the easiest for us. If we use Gatorade, we often simply fill the Gatorade bottle lid with Gatorade. A small cup or votive candle holder can be filled with marbles and juice.
Can butterflies fart?
Every animal farts including insects like bees and ants and butterflies. If you have a belly of sorts and a rectum, gasses will build up due to digestion and by nature they will fart. Monarch butterflies are the “Kings of Farting”.
Will butterflies drink sugar water?
Butterflies feed on nectar, and you can make a sugar water solution for them to drink, just as you would with a hummingbird. They will also lick water off glass.
Can you have a butterfly as a pet?
Caterpillars make great pets, both for children and for adults. Butterflies are also terrific pets as long as their special needs regarding flying space and food are met.