Butterfly

Monarch Butterflies Facts Monarch butterflies are the most colorful and most beautiful of all butterflies, but there are many more facts about monarch butterflies that the people who have been studying them for years, entomologists, students, and others, have found out. Did you know that the monarch butterflies that live in North America migrate? Monarch butterflies are the only insect to migrate up to 2,500 miles to get out of the cold weather and hibernate. But not all monarch butterflies migrate; only the fourth generation of monarchs can migrate each year because the first three generations die after about six weeks from escaping their cocoons. Did you know that monarch butterflies go through four generations each year? The first three generations hatch from their cocoon state (also known as the pupa or chrysalis state) and live for up to six weeks, but the fourth generation continues to live on for up to six or eight months so that they can migrate to a warmer climate, hibernate, ...

Fun Butterfly Facts We have gathered some strange butterfly facts to share with you. Amaze your friends! Enjoy! Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches. Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow. Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming. The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour! Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring. Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees. Representations o...

Butterflies life cycle The life-cycle of a butterfly (and mo th for that matter) is a remarkable series of changes between seemingly very different for ms culminating in the emergence of a butterfly. Throughout nature there are fantastic and fascinating occurrences of many kinds. The metamorphosis of an egg to a butterfly is just one of those wonders. The following series of pages outlines the process from start to finish. There is also a one page short version available featuring the Zebra, Heliconius ch aritonius. The story starts with a pair of butterflies matin g. This en ables the females eggs to be fertilised. Like many other species in nature there is often a courtship routine preceding the actual mating. Some butterflies fly in spirals, sometimes the female lies with her wings in a certain position. The purpose of any courtship routine (humans included !) is to dis cover the suitability of the potential mate. Part of this process is to discover if the f emale is already f...

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