3. Introduction
Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with
large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have
six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of
antennae, comp Butterflies are insects in the
macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from
the order Lepidoptera, which also includes
moths. Adult butterflies have large, often
brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous,
fluttering flight. ound eyes, and an
exoskeleton.
4. Cabbage White
The Cabbage White butterfly is a mid-sized
butterfly that usually has a combination of
white, cream, yellow and black marbled wings.
They can also have greenish marbling on the
wings
5. Lotis Blue (Lycaeides
argyrognomon lotis)
The Lotis Blue Butterfly is a small butterfly
with only a wingspan of about an inch (2.5
cm).They are beautiful blue butterflies that
live throughout most of northern North
America.They are endangered butterflies due
to fires burning through much of their native
peat regions.
6. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
The largest butterfly in the world is Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing.They have a
wingspan of more than 11 inches (30 cm).That makes these butterflies about ten
times the size of a typical butterfly species.
These butterflies are native to Papua New Guinea.They were only discovered back
in 1906 and had since then faced endangerment and even extinction.The
booming palm oil industry highly threatens them.The density of the butterfly had
slowly decreased to only 10 per square kilometer.
7. Western Pygmy Blue
The Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly is
the smallest known butterfly in the world.
They have a wingspan of 0.5 inches (1.3 cm).
They live throughout North and South
America.These tiny butterflies have slate blue
colors on their bodies and inner portions of
their wings.This fades into brown, with black
rings and white strips on the outside of the
wing.
8. American Moth-
Hedylidae moth-butterflies are an interesting grey area between butterflies and
moths.
They were viewed as an extant sister group to the superfamily of butterflies.
However, in 1986, naturalists combined the group into a single genus
called Macrosoma.This genus is a novel group of butterflies and is the only group
of butterflies that doesn’t fall under the superfamily Papilionoidea.
9. Skippers
kippers are another genera in the order Lepidoptera that blur the line
between moths and butterflies. Since they are diurnal, they are called
butterflies. Many of them have brown tones across their wings and bodies.
This coloring can make them difficult for an untrained eye to differentiate
from moths.
There are more than 3,500 species of skippers recognized around the world.
The majority of them live in the Neotropical regions of Central and South
America.
10. Conclution
Butterflies seem like such ethereal creatures,
and for children, they come so close to the
description of fairies that it is only natural that
they are looked at with such awe and admirati
Many butterflies may be in trouble because of
habitat loss and also because of the destruction
of grasslands and forests. Some butterflies have
nowhere to lay eggs or feed.To help them,
people plant a butterfly garden with flowers
having lots of nectars to feed on. on.
