O.E. buttorfleoge, perhaps based on the old notion that the insects consume butter or milk that is left uncovered. Or, less creatively, simply because the pale yellow color of many species' wings suggests the color of butter. Another theory connects it to the color of the insect's excrement.
That's not the scientific name its only a common name, each specific species of butterfly has its own name, binomial nomenclature. Binomial nomenclature is the naming of a specific organism, the first word being the genus labeling the the exact species then getting into more detail based on size, coloring, flight distance, etc. The Anglo-Saxons used the word 'butterfloege' because their most common butterfly was the yellow brimstone butterfly. This English influence was brought to the new world.
I believe if a monarch crosses your path after someone dies they are there to tell you that they are all right and not to worry and not to be sad for them...
Monarch means King, or Queen. The early North American settlers called them King Billys, after William of Orange, who became the English King in 1689.
That is the common name. The scientific name is Danaus plexippus
from the phrase "flutter by"--it's a Spoonerism.
The nickname for a Monarch butterfly is the "milkweed butterfly". The nickname is because its larvae eat the plant. Also milkweed is the only thing the larvae can eat.
their latin name is Danaus Plexippus
It's not endangered.
Its origin in Science.
its name doesnt change its still called a butterfly
A baby butterfly is a young caterpillar. Its name depends upon the species of butterfly. If you mean a small adult butterfly, there are hundreds of species of small adult butterflies.
The butterflies are called Caterpillars or they can be in a cocoon.
Butterflies are insects and birds are birds. They are incredibly different, one of the few similarities between the two is that they both fly (with the exception of some birds) but apart from that they don't have much in common.
Some people (not just Piglet) think a butterfly was called a flutterby and then the two words kind of reversed.
the scientific name for a butterfly is lepidoptera
glaucopsyche lygdamus is the silvery blue butterflys latin name.
Generally, silver studded blue butterflys live to be over 100 years old. in Other cases, these butterflys may have a disease known to animals that is very common in this species of butterfly, called precariovertabrates. If this is the case, the butterfly will only live a couple weeks after their birth, or metamorphasis.
Butterflys do not "get pregnant". They are insects. Mammals get pregnant.
Yes, lizards eat butterflys
no butterfly's are invertebrates. they do not have a back bone.
would a butterflys wing not flutter
Butterflys go through a changing process from a catapillar to a beautiful butterfly.
from flowers of course they have necter
yes butterflys are legal in Florida r u stupid
moths can get the butterflys wing and knock it down then they eat them while there on the ground
the peacock butterflys reproduction is during the following spring in which they start to mate.