13 Fun Facts About Butterflies
1.) Butterflies are cold-blooded and will not fly if the temperature is below 50 degrees.
2.) You WILL NOT hurt a butterfly if you touch it, although you might rub off some of the color of its wings which are actually miniature scales.
3.) There are some species of butterflies that actually prefer feeding on rotting fruit and animal dung.
4.) Butterflies excrete a red liquid which is sometimes mistaken for blood when in reality it is actually meconium, "pupal fluid" which isn't blood at all. It is made up of waste material that is produced during the pupal stage.
5.)Butterflies "taste" with their feet! Butterfly feet are actually tiny receptors which allow them to "taste" the food that they are standing on.
6.) Male Swallowtales gather around mud puddles to sip the nutrients from the mud.
7.) Have you ever seen a tiny white butterfly fluttering about your vegetable garden? Chances are it is an adult cabbage white butterfly depositing eggs on your cabbage or vegetables in the cabbage family. The caterpillar of the cabbage white is velvety and just the right shade of green to blend in perfectly with the cabbage leaves
8.) Once a bird has eaten a monarch it is definately a reminder NOT to eat another one, for the milkweed that the monarch eats as a caterpillar has a toxic effect when the butterfly is ingested.
9.) Female butterflies usually are bigger and live longer than male butterflies. (You GO GIRLS)
10.)Butterflies are related to crabs and lobsters! Why? Because like those sea creatures, butterflies have skeletons on the outside of their bodies. They’re arthropods: insects,
crustaceans, millipedes, centipedes and arachnids.
11.) Butterflies weigh only as much as two rose petals, but can fly thousands of miles. (How many of us would LOVE to weigh as much as two rose petals?)
12.) Most butterflies can see ultraviolet, a color that is invisible to human eyes.
13.) Most butterflies prefer flowers that are pink, red, purple or yellow and that are open all day.
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