Amazing Facts Of The Most Colourful Winged Creatures: Butterflies
Long since I had a sleeping desire of visiting a butterfly park and that came true just a couple of days back. I could find some time convenient out of my busy schedule to visit the Nandankanan botanical park where a large concentration of a wide variety of butterflies are seen .
Do you have any idea about the unique ability of butterflies to tell time and track the position of the sun. The time-keeping cells are in their antenna, and butterfly eyes can follow the sun’s location with good accuracy. Do you have any idea about the second largest pollinators in the world just next to honey bees? They are none other than butterflies. Do you know that butterflies have four wings not just two……. please go through the following article regarding all these amazing facts about butterflies.
# The word ‘butterfly’ comes from an old
English word ‘buterfleoge’.
# Butterflies can’t hear but they can feel
vibration .
# Lungless butterflies breathe with the help of
respiratory blood in their body.
# Butterflies eat only liquid food.
# They smell with a pair of “antennae”.
# Butterflies have compound eyes. So they
see the fragmented parts of an object and
put each fragmented picture together to see the whole object
# There lies a one word substitution for a group of butterflies and that is ‘ flutter’.
# Their eyes do have more than 6,000 lenses and they can see ultraviolet light.
# The lower part of the butterfly’s legs (called
the tarsi) has many buds. That makes them
feel sad.
# Millions of overlapping scales give butterfly wings their colour.
# These butterflies can fly even when their
wings are blown, but it is their wings which
make them look colourful.
# Female butterflies are larger and live longer
than male butterflies.
# When they are young, they have many
sharp hairs and the toxins in them are
poisonous, so look at them but don’t touch
them.
# Butterflies are the second largest group of
pollinators next to honey bees.
# They are the largest. Monarch butterflies
can fly about 3000 km. They may cover a
few countries during their flights. Some
butterflies can fly at night.
# Lack of habitat for butterflies is a major
threat to butterflies.
# Butterflies are seen all over the world
except in Antarctica.
Please go through the following slides having a detailed description about their diet, lifecycle, host plants, flying habits, wings and their role in our lives.
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