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living confetti that taste with their feet and remember being a worm.
means Butterflies are flying insects with large, often brightly colored wings, famous for transforming from caterpillars through a chrysalis into their winged adult form.
from From Old English 'butorfleoge,' literally 'butter-fly.' Nobody is fully sure why: the popular guess is that yellow species (like the brimstone) looked the color of butter, but an older folk belief held that the insects stole milk and butter, or that witches in butterfly form did. A separate, more colorful theory points to the look of their droppings. The honest answer is that the exact reasoning is lost, though the 'butter-colored fly' explanation is the leading one.
- foot taste
- They taste plants by standing on them
- old memory
- Adults recall things learned as caterpillars
- epic migration
- Monarchs fly 3,000 miles to Mexico
- see-through
- Glasswing butterflies have transparent wings
- mud drinkers
- They sip salt from puddles and tears
monarch butterfly migration — up to 3 billion monarchs travel 3,000 miles between mexico and canada annually
blue morpho — iridescent butterfly found in amazon rainforest with 6-inch wingspan
brimstone butterfly — longest-lived butterfly species in europe, living up to 13 months
swallowtail butterfly — largest butterfly in north america, found across all 50 us states