Butterfly

Butterfly

Butterfly is a beautiful insect. Is not it? It is the only one in insect classification that has scaly wings. The wings are colorful, sometimes the color is a combination between yellow and brown, blue, black and white, and it could be more than 3 colors. Butterflies wings are also bright. As butterfly ages, the color of the wings fade and become ragged.

If you can catch a butterfly, you will find that it has 6 legs, 3 body part (head, thorax, and abdomen), compound eyes and an exoskeleton to save it when moved quickly.  And butterflies have a complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. The egg is very small. The shape sometimes round, oval or cylindrical, It’s depend on butterfly varies that laid the egg. This egg is placed on the leave because when it became a caterpillar (larva), it needs to eat leaves. Eat and eat for growing. Caterpillar can grow quickly by eating much leaves. Pupa is one step closer to the butterfly. The caterpillar changed in this stage and waiting for being an adult, it is the last stage of the metamorphosis. It was an awesome life circle if you can observe it by your own eyes.

Butterfly has a long, flexible tongue, so it can sip liquid food like nectar, juice rotting fruit and water from puddles. Amazine.co said that there are 5 kind of butterfly’s food: the nectar, the rotting fruit that has a lot of sugar and water, the bird waste which still fresh and moist, the tree sap, than the salt and sweat, because butterfly like sodium. But if you are a butterfly’s collector, it is better for you to give nectar or rotting fruit.

Butterflies are very good fliers, it can only fly if their body’s temperature is above 86 degrees. The fastest butterfly can fly about 30 mile per hour or fasters, and the slowly butterfly can fly about 5 mph. it has many species and different in all types of environments. In Java and Bali it is more than 600 species. Butterflies also migrate to avoid adverse environmental condition. There is a Tropical Butterfly Exhibition in Munich Botanical Garden which held every year and this information of course for people who like, love and give attention in butterfly. The information published by liputan6.com. And in the exhibition people can see the flying butterfly in the greenhouse from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.