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Fun Facts about the Butterfly

The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!

Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.

Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming. 

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.

Some Case Moth caterpillars (Psychidae) build a case around themselves that they always carry with them. It is made of silk and pieces of plants or soil.

In 1958 Entomologist W.G. Bruce published a list of Arthropod references in the Bible. The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are: Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4

There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.

The name 'Butterfly' was first coined to describe the Yellow Brimstone Butterfly, a variety commonly seen across Europe. It was actually known as 'Butter-colored Fly' and that later became 'Butterfly'. 

The wings of Butterflies are actually transparent. The vivid colors are due to overlapping bright scales.

Butterfly wings are very delicate and can get damaged if handled. The scales too can get rubbed off if touched.

Some Butterflies lay their eggs on the underside of specific plants, others lay them in mid-flight.

Butterflies taste food by standing on it. This is because their taste sensors are found in their feet.

Butterflies weigh as little as two rose petals.

Adult Butterflies do not grow in size as they get older.

Plenty of Butterflies indicate a healthy, well-balanced ecosystem, and a dearth of Butterflies can denote a possible environmental problem.

Conservation of natural habitats and reduction in the use of pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals is required for the proliferation of Butterflies.

After bees, butterflies are the second largest group of pollinators.

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