butterflies

Ancient ideas about butterflies are associated with the most important concepts for a person: life and death, soul, happiness, love.

Many features of butterflies are very peculiar and are not found in other insects. The most characteristic of them are the sucking mouth apparatus and the scaly cover of the wings. The vast majority of butterflies have both of these traits. In the same cases when […]

Butterflies develop with complete transformation, i.e. stages of egg, larva, pupa and adult insect (imago). The life cycle of different species lasts from several weeks to two years. Video stages of development at the end of the article.

Speaking of butterflies, I would like to remind you that they bring great benefits to nature: butterflies are the best pollinators of plants. And some flowers cannot live without butterflies at all, since they are pollinated only by them.

The information collected by scientists about the life of Lepidoptera butterflies speaks of their very complex and interesting behavior. There are, for example, migratory species that annually “move” closer to warmth for the winter, making a journey of thousands of kilometers. The unusually entertaining mating dances of butterflies are described.

Butterflies are very fragile and mysterious creatures. But if you want, you can keep them at home. Since butterflies do not live long, they will have to be bred. Young butterflies, 1-3 days after hatching from the chrysalis, are suitable for mating.

The scales laid on the wing of a butterfly, like tiles on the roof of a house, are often brightly colored and form lines, spots, stripes, stains - all that is called the "wing pattern". It sometimes looks like a real picture, decipherable. So […]

Butterflies have two pairs of wings - it is in them that the beauty of these fragile creatures lies. Patterned "fans" (as well as the body of butterflies) are usually covered with scales. These are modified hairs found on the wings of many insects. The number of scales can be […]

The sizes of butterflies are so different that some of them seem to be just giants compared to others - pygmies. The largest butterfly in the world (wingspan 27 cm) is the gray agripina bat, which lives in Brazil. A bit less […]

There are various and sometimes conflicting classifications of butterflies. The easiest way is to divide them into nocturnal (or moths) and diurnal. According to another system, all butterflies, with the exception of a few ancient families, belong to a group of so-called heteroptera. […]

In science, this beautiful butterfly was given the name Aglais urticae. Diurnal butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. This is one of the most common and most common butterflies. Probably everyone has met her.

There are relatively few butterflies that cause significant harm to humans. However, among them there are species, caterpillars, which during the period of mass reproduction can devastate gardens and orchards, deleaf many hectares of forests and cause serious economic damage.