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?What is a Butterfly

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. The four wings and the six legs of the butterfly are attached to the thorax. The thorax contains the muscles that make the legs and wings move .


LIFE-CYCLE OF A BUTTERFLY
Butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis in which they go
through four different life stages

Egg - A butterfly starts its life as an egg, often laid on a leaf

Larva - The larva (caterpillar) hatches from an egg and eats leaves or flowers almost constantly. The caterpillar molts (loses its old skin) many times as it grows. The caterpillar will increase up to several thousand times in size before pupating

Pupa - It turns into a pupa (chrysalis); this is a resting stage

.Adult - A beautiful, flying adult emerges. This adult will continue the cycle

CLASSIFICATION

Butterflies and moth belong to the order Lepidoptera. Lepidos is Greek for "scales" and ptera means "wing". These scaled wings are different from the wings of any other insects. Lepidoptera is a very large group; there are more types of butterflies and moths than there are of any other type of insects except beetles. It is estimated that there are about 150,000 different species of butterflies and moths (there may be many more). There are about 28,000 butterfly species
worldwide, the rest are moths.

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Bees are adapted for feeding on nectra and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protin and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.
Bees have a long (a complex "tongue") that enables them to obtain the nectar from flowers. They have antenae almost universally made up of thirteen segments in males and twelve in females, as is typical for the superfamily. Bees all have two pairs of wings, the hind pair being the smaller of the two; in a very few species, one sex or caste has relatively short wings that make flight difficult or impossible, but none are wingless.
The smallest bee is the dwarf bee (Trigona minima), about 2.1 mm (5/64") long. The largest bee in the world is plout, which can grow to a size of 39 mm (1.5"). Member of the family , or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.
The best-known bee species is the western bee honey, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee. Human management of this species is known as beekeeing or apiculture.


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