Butterfly Facts

Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour.
There are 165,000 known species of butterflies found on every continent except Antarctica.
The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Their eyes are made of 6,000 lenses and can see ultraviolet light.
Many adult butterflies never excrete waste – they use up all they eat for energy.
Despite popular belief, butterfly wings are clear . The colors and patterns we see are made by the reflection of the tiny scales covering them.

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Butterfly wings move in a figure “8” motion.
Some butterfly species lay their eggs on only one type of plant.
Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
In some areas, the number of feeding caterpillars on plants is so great that you can actually hear them munching.
Butterflies are essentially cold-blooded.
Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring.
Butterflies have a long, tube-like tongue called a proboscis that allows them to soak up their food rather than sip it.

Males drink from mud puddles to extract minerals that aren’t available in flowers. This behavior is known as “puddling.”
Scientists thought butterflies were deaf until the first butterfly ears were identified in 1912.
Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.

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