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The adult butterfly has four wings that are covered with tiny scales that give them their colorful and diverse designs. They have six legs, two antenna, a head, compound eyes, a thorax, and an abdomen. They can sense the air for nectar with their antennas. Butterflies also have fairly good eye sight.
- How are the butterflies described?
- What do butterfly eyes look like?
- What does a butterfly habitat look like?
- What do butterflies have?
- Is a butterfly an insect or a bug?
- What colors can a butterfly see?
- Can butterflies bite?
- Can butterflies feel pain?
- Where do you find butterflies?
- What does the butterfly live?
- What does a monarch butterfly look like?
- What does a butterfly symbolize?
- How many hearts does a butterfly have?
- What are butterflies feeling?
How are the butterflies described?
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 three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest), and abdomen (the tail end). The butterfly's body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.
What do butterfly eyes look like?
Butterflies have two eyes just like we do. But butterfly eyes are called compound eyes because they have many, many lenses. ... Most butterflies can see red, yellow, blue, and green, but some species can see other colors, too.
What does a butterfly habitat look like?
Butterflies live worldwide except the arctic. Nearly anywhere with nectar-producing flowers will host butterflies. Some species live in the deserts and feed upon the succulent plants that grow in the harsh conditions.
What do butterflies have?
Butterflies have six jointed legs, a pair of antennae and three body parts called a head, thorax (chest), and abdomen (tail end). The four wings and the six legs of a butterfly are attached to its thorax.
Is a butterfly an insect or a bug?
Aphids, cicadas, stink bugs, bed bugs, and water bugs are part of Hemiptera and are actually bugs. However, beetles, butterflies, bees, and flies are all just insects. There are also non-insect pests like millipedes, pillbugs, and spiders that are in completely different categories.
What colors can a butterfly see?
It uses color vision when searching for food, and is sensitive to UV, violet, blue, green, and red wavelength peaks, suggesting color constancy.
Can butterflies bite?
Butterflies can't sting as they do not possess a stinger. They also can't bite, as they don't have a mouth able of biting.
Can butterflies feel pain?
Butterflies do not feel pain. Although butterflies know when they are touched, their nervous system does not have pain receptors that registers pain so this procedure did not cause the butterfly stress or pain.
Where do you find butterflies?
They are found in every habitat from tropical forests to deserts to grasslands to tundra! You can see them almost anywhere in the world, because they live on every continent except Antarctica. The thing butterflies are best known for is the way they change shape as they grow.
What does the butterfly live?
An average butterfly species has an adult life span of two weeks or less. For example one butterfly studied in Costa Rica had a life expectancy of about two days, and live ten days at the most. No adult butterfly can live more than a year.
What does a monarch butterfly look like?
The monarch butterfly is reddish-orange with black vein-like markings. There is a black border around its wings with white spots on it. Its wings look like stained glass windows! ... The bright orange of the monarch is a type of advertising coloration that warns predators away.
What does a butterfly symbolize?
In its metamorphosis from the common, colorless caterpillar to the exquisite winged creature of delicate beauty, the butterfly has become a metaphor for transformation and hope; across cultures, it has become a symbol for rebirth and resurrection, for the triumph of the spirit and the soul over the physical prison, the ...
How many hearts does a butterfly have?
Yes, butterflies and all other insects have both a brain and a heart. The center of a butterfly's nervous system is the subesophageal ganglion and is located in the insect's thorax, not its head. The butterfly has a long chambered heart that runs the length of its body on the upper side.
What are butterflies feeling?
“The butterflies feeling is partially your body saying I'm stressed but I'm motivated to do something or see this person again. It's actually the same when you want to punch somebody in the face; the body interprets it in different ways.”
