Butterflies have what is called a "proboscis" ... sort of a very long thin tongue that rolls up and hides when not in use, a bit like those party blowers that when you blow it it unfurls. Through the proboscis the butterfly sucks up nectar from flowers and fruit.
A female butterfly releases pheromones and a male will come to her. They link their abdomens tail to tail to mate.
They go and reproduce all day long
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Fertilization of eggs in butterfly reproduction occurs during a vigorous mating ritual. The female butterfly then lays and abandons her eggs.
the peacock butterflys reproduction is during the following spring in which they start to mate.
Carnivorous caterpillars have the same life style and reproduction as any other caterpillars. They will be a caterpillar until it builds a cocoon to become a moth or butterfly.
The butterfly is an insect that has 4 separate stages of life. The egg is the beginning of life for the caterpillar. The caterpillar then forms a chrysalis. After the caterpillar changes in the chrysalis to a butterfly, it emerges to restart the circle of life.
Butterfly is dependent on flowering plants for nectar
Mutualism because the flower provides food for the butterfly while the butterfly carries the pollen to other flowers, helping the flower to reproduce.
the viceroy butterfly is a butterfly that mimics the monarch butterfly
monarch butterfly
The Western Pygmy Blue Butterfly is the smallest butterfly.
a small butterfly a small butterfly
· Yellow Angled Sulfur Butterfly · Yellow Tip Butterfly