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Colorful Butterflies Butterflies are nature's flying flowers! It may be the tiniest blues or the largest swallowtails!! How many of us know that the wings of butterflies are transparent? It is true that the wings are really transparent. We may hesitate to accept this as true as because the butterflies are most colorful and vibrant live flying lifeforms around us!! We may be surprised initially if we could know how a butterfly wing is formed? It is actually formed by layers of chitin.the protein that makes up an insect's exoskeleton. We can see right through these layers as these layers are very thin Butterflies taste with their feet! They live on an all liquid diet Butterflies can not chew solids. They can only feed on liquids, usually nectar.. A butterfly that can not drink is doomed And as a butterfly can not also live on nectar alone, it has to occasionally supplement its diet of sugar by drinking from mud puddles rich in minerals and salts. The butterflies are cold blooded animals.They need an ideal body temperature of about 85 degree Fahrenheit to fly. It is unable to escape from predators or feed if the air temperature falls below 55 degree Fahrenheit . They can fly with ease when the air temperature range between 82F-100F. A butterfly can usually take its first flight after its birth only when its wings reach full size. How long a butterfly usually lives?? A few short weeks or more? The answer is heart breaking to people who like them to fly in their gardens. Actually,a butterfly has just a few short weeks to live. Just 2--4 weeks. During that time, a butterfly would focus all its energy on eating and mating! However Monarchs and Mourning cloaks can live up to 9 months. Butterflies are nearsighted but can discriminate a lot of colors. They can see a range of ultra violate colors invisible to human eyes. Butterflies know all kind of tricks to survive. Some of them would fold their wings to blend in to background to render themselves all but invisible to predators.Some pattern themselves after other species known for their toxicity to repel predators. Do we want to learn more about these colorful insects? Then we must grab an authentic publication on butterflies and start reading!! Meantime,others may kindly view the pictures of some butterflies below: Happy viewing.readers.           |
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Thank you so much for your nice comments , Gemini. Hope to see you again here when a new post will be uploaded by me. Meantime, Have a nice time and take care too.
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Mary Ann. You are always welcome to my blog, Mary Ann. Love to read your post left here from time to time. Will be delighted if you upload pictures of your butterfly bushes to your blog so that your bushes could be viewed by us. Have a nice week.
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Looklook, Thank you for these beautiful pics of butterflies and the info, I have also seen lots of them in my garden here, specially in summer, coming on my flowers. I admire them really. The designs and varieties of colors on their wings are so attractive. We have in my country a Museum of butterflies, lovely to see thousands of species. Thanks for the blog. My best wishes to you. Lisa.
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Looklook, Thank you for these beautiful pics of butterflies and the info, I have also seen lots of them in my garden here, specially in summer, coming on my flowers. I admire them really. The designs and varieties of colors on their wings are so attractive. We have in my country a Museum of butterflies, lovely to see thousands of species. Thanks for the blog. My best wishes to you. Lisa. When I read you here, I feel that some one who always appreciated my work since a very long time has again returned to encourage me.. Lisa, I do not know why I feel like that but truth is that i feel that way always whenever you are here. I have seen the picture of your garden and the trees planted by you there.The flower beds are wonderful to look at, Lisa. No doubt, the butterflies will find the place as desirable to move from flower to flower. Wish I had such a large garden at my city home! Thanks again, Lisa for your comments. Have a great week. Best wishes and regards. look.
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Thanks for stopping by my my blog page and also for leaving such a delightful comment there on, mamannie. No doubt, butterflies are fragile creatures but their beauties can not be described in words. Take care and stay always well and cheerful.
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Hallo Cactus, I am delighted to read your post you left on my blog today. It is so inspiring that words can not express my appreciation for it. Hope you will raise more in future too. I am really happy to learn that my efforts in writing the blog could bring back good memories for you! Thanks again for visiting my blog and for leaving such beautiful comments on my post. Stay well and happy.. Best wishes.
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Yes bearybeary, those are really beautiful butterflies just like beautiful and knowledgeable viewers, Thanks for your short but meaningful comment. I really appreciate it, Have a great week and stay happy and cheerful always.
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I never knew there were so many different and beautiful butterflies. Thank you so much for showing them, they are truly beautiful and would cheer a person up.
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It makes me happy to read you Robyn everywhere including my blog page here. Butterflies are really beautiful living creatures and I have never seen an ugly one in my life.. Even a dead butterfly preserved in a glass frame is a pretty thing to look at Robyn! Wish you best of everything. Stay well and happy.
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]ano Glad to note that you have enjoyed the information provided in this blog of mine which I consider very much limited in nature for obvious reasons. Most of the butterflies that have been shown in the blog are from my country, Bangladesh, except Monarch butterflies which can be seen in there too. We have butterfly themed park established in this country too in addition to wildlife sanctuaries which are considered as havens for insects and other invertebrates. Jano,you can Google "Bangladesh butterfly themed park" to learn more about our butterflies if you like. Thanks so much for showing interest in my blog, Jano. Best wishes. Have a great week too.
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Billy, my friend, thanks for the decent words spoken/mentioned about my blogs in your post left here on my page. True, there are many many species of colorful butterflies in this blue planet of ours. In my country alone,the total number of such beautiful lifeforms may be between 450 to 500. We are now trying to preserve them from going extinct .Thanks again for passing by my post and for leaving such inspiring words. Regards. Have a trouble free week.
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11/26/2014 1:03 am |
Hi Look: What a fascinating blog and love all the pics. We have a huge Butterfly Museum here in Niagara Falls.
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Hi Look: What a fascinating blog and love all the pics. We have a huge Butterfly Museum here in Niagara Falls. bijou? Happy to note that you have loved all the pictures. Best wishes to you. Have a nice week.
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11/26/2014 1:00 pm |
Thanks, bijou ! Glad to know that you have a huge Butterfly Museum there in Niagara Falls. May be some day I could visit this museum when I shall be in your great country. How far are you located from Montreal, bijou? Happy to note that you have loved all the pictures. Best wishes to you. Have a nice week.
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11/26/2014 1:07 pm |
Look, I wanted to tell you something before but I forgot. In my first year of high school in Science class the teacher told us we all had to hand in a collection of butterflies. Which meant that we had to catch a bunch of different butterflies and then stick a straight pin right into them, then pin them to a piece of carbdboard??? OMG I was so disgusted and told the teacher that I refused to kill any living thing, especially for some school project. I got a big "O" on that project, and a week of detentions.
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Look, I wanted to tell you something before but I forgot. In my first year of high school in Science class the teacher told us we all had to hand in a collection of butterflies. Which meant that we had to catch a bunch of different butterflies and then stick a straight pin right into them, then pin them to a piece of carbdboard??? OMG I was so disgusted and told the teacher that I refused to kill any living thing, especially for some school project. I got a big "O" on that project, and a week of detentions.
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Carolyn, Thank you so much for your delightful comments left on my post here in above. True, Bijou was and still is a courageous Lady. The world will always be in need of such persons. Carolyn, I can only imagine a young pretty lady fearlessly wandered around far away from her house where she lived with her family. I could also imagine her moving through the gardens located in every corner of her mother's farm house like a butterfly moving from flower to flower. Thanks once again for the nice words left on my blog. Wishing you best of everything Your friend Looklook.
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