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Butterfly Information With Pictures

Butterfly
Butterflies are day flying insects having thousands of tiny scales on
their wings which give them a catchy and colorful look. Not always the
wings are colored sometimes they are iridescent and break the light into
VIBGYOR. The undersides of wings are dull colored which protects
them from birds and other predators by camouflaging them.
Long-distance flights
All butterflies have four wings, but these work together like a single
pair. A butterfly beats it wings fairly slowly: about twenty times a second
for a cabbage white. Yet many butterflies can fly fast and powerfully.
Even some of the smaller species travel long distances on migration. Comma
butterflies, for instance, can fly from the central Sahara to Britain,
a distance of about 2,000 miles, in fourteen days.
Moths
Moths, like butterflies, have wings which are covered with tiny scales.
They often get trapped on window panes, and if you catch one to let it
out you will find a fine dust on your fingers. This is made by some of
the scales, which have brushed off as the mouth fluttered.
There are far more moths than there are butterflies. Some are very tiny
indeed, but some are even as big as the biggest butterfly. Although they
are closely related to butterflies, moths generally lead a different way
of life. They are mostly active at night. Because of this they tend to
be drab in color, unlike the brightly colored butterflies, mostly active
in the daytime. During the day they rest somewhere like on a tree trunk,
where they are very hard to see because they are so well camouflaged.
Moths have a good sense of smell, which they use to find both their mates
and their food. Many male moths have very elaborate antennae. These are
the ‘nose’ of the moth, and are used mainly to smell out a suitable female.
A male moth can follow the scent of a female across 18 km (11 miles) of
country and town, ignoring all other sorts of smells.
Moths get most of the nectar feed on from long tube, strong smelling,
pale colored flowers. Honeysuckle, jasmine and tobacco plants all
provide food for moths.
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