FACTS ABOUT BUTTERFLIES

------Did you know that butterflies need the warmth of the sun to enable them to fly

Butterflies are cold-blooded and will not fly if the temperature is below 50 degrees.

you will not hurt a butterfly if you touch it, although you might rub off some of the color of its wings which are actually miniature scales.

-----Butterflies excrete a red liquid that is sometimes mistaken for blood when in reality it is actually meconium, "pupal fluid" which isn't blood at all. It is made
-----Butterflies "taste" with their feet! Butterfly feet are actually tiny receptors that allow them to "taste" the food that they are standing on. up of waste material that is produced during the pupa stage.
-----Butterflies excrete a red liquid that is sometimes mistaken for blood when in reality it is actually meconium, "pupal fluid" which isn't blood at all. It is made up of waste material that is produced during the pupa stage.

------Butterflies can see ultraviolet light (light invisible to the human eye) that makes the markings on flowers very vivid to them and guides them to the nectar tubes.  Some butterflies have ultraviolet reflectants or markings on their own wings that are visible only to other butterflies.

-----Butterflies have strong muscles in their thorax that force their wings up and down on a fulcrum basis.
  They actually go in a slanted figure 8 motions that propel them forward through the air in the same principle
 as an airplane.