Facts about Butterflies
May 10, 2022
❏ Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
❏ Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
❏ The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
❏ Some butterflies can fly 50km/h or faster. Slow flying butterflies probably fly about 10km/h.
❏ A group of butterflies puddling together is referred to as a “puddle club”.
❏ Some Butterflies are nomadic in behavior , for example Common Jezebel.
❏ Butterflies glue their eggs to leaves.
❏ Butterflies lays hundreads of eggs, depending on species numbers increases upto 500 hundreds.,
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| Common Jezebel butterfly, laying eggs. |
❏ The common rose is active much earlier in the morning, rest in middle of the day and again seen late afternoon.
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| Common Rose butterfly |
❏ Monarch butterflies are the only insect in the whole world that travels over 2,500 miles on average every winter.
❏ These migrations take place over a number of generations and no single individual completes the whole trip.
❏ Butterflies can see green , yellow and red colours.
❏ Butterflies can see beyond the ultraviolet spectrum and their eyes consist of a network of 6000 lenses.
❏ Each species of butterfly has its own host plant range and while some species of butterfly are restricted to just one species of plant.
❏ The antennae are composed of many segments and have clubbed tips . The sensory receptors are concentrated in the tips and can detect odours.
References
Beautiful butterfly facts - https://www.thefactsite.com/beautiful-butterfly-facts/
