Butterflies and Moths

There is no record of the first butterfly being discovered. As a matter of fact, butterflies have been around far longer than humans. Humans have been on the earth for around 200,000 years, but butterflies have been around for 40 to 50 million years.

A butterfly catcher is commonly referred to as a "butterfly net." This device is designed with a mesh net attached to a lightweight frame, which is used by entomologists, researchers, and enthusiasts to catch butterflies without harming them.

Blue Jays rarely migrate, but if they migrate they leave when the weather gets to cold for them.

Dreaming about white butterflies can symbolize purity, transformation, and new beginnings. It may suggest that you are going through a period of personal growth and spiritual awakening. White butterflies are often seen as positive omens representing hope and joy in one's life.

It's either a taxis or a kenisis response but i dont know which.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length.

It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Iron Butterfly's bassist Philip Taylor Kramer went missing in 1995. His remains were found in 1999, and it was determined that he died by suicide.

it take months to years to grow into an adult

dogs don't loke the differernt smell of the new bed. Now, if you go on vaction and the dog is smart, the dog will be polite and sleep on his new bed. But when he gets home, he knows he can sleep wherever he wants.

That's easy the moth can blend in (well some can) And god just made it have special qualitys!!!! GOD RULES!!!!That's easy the moth can blend in (well some can) And god just made it have special qualitys!!!! GOD RULES!!!!

This phenomenon is called "mimicry," where the butterfly's markings resemble those of a larger, dangerous, or toxic animal, deterring predators from attacking it.

Birds, frogs, spiders, people. The list of butterfly predators is long. Suffice it to mention just ants, spiders, wasps, parasitic wasps, parasitic flies, birds, rats, toads, lizards, praying mantis, snakes and monkeys. There is little that would not like to eat a butterfly in one or another of its life stages.

I am going to describe a how to make a beautiful and colorful wooden butterfly. I will be making the beautiful Blue Morpho Butterfly. This butterfly has gorgeous wings that look like blue shimmering satin with a lovely black border, and body. I will be working from scratch, starting with drawing my own pattern, and woodwork. If you would like to purchase a ready-made butterfly, I find most craft stores usually have a section of wooden items. If you are unable to find a wooden butterfly, there are some other options. If you feel comfortable using a power saw, jigsaw, band saw or have a scroll saw get a butterfly pattern and cut your own. The pattern can be purchased or get one from your computers clip art. If you do not feel comfortable using power saws, then take your pattern to a woodworker. Suggested list: * Wooden Butterfly -optional * Butterfly Pattern - optional * Paint Primer * Decorative Hooks * Wire * Copper Tube 1" * Copper Wire * Heavy fishing line * Craft Paints * Craft Paint Brushes * Sealer * Piper Cutter * Sandpaper * Wood Glue * Safety Glasses * Small Piece of sanded plywood * Power Saw * Drill * Vise * Wire cutters * Needle nose pliers To make the pattern if starting from scratch, I simply used two printer sheets placed one on top of the other and cutoff a two-inch strip from the width. Draw his wings using the rest of the page. The bottom wing has some scallops and since you are using two pages you will have a mirror image. Using the strip of paper you cut off draw his body five and half inches long and one-inch wide. Cut out the wings and body. Position the pieces together and glue. You now have a pattern to work with. If doing your own woodwork, get familiar with your tools, use caution that your clothes do not get in the way, and use your safety glasses. If using a scroll saw cut the wood to a more manageable size. Transfer the pattern on to the piece of plywood and cut around your pattern. Do not worry about making antennas for the butterfly. We will take care of that later. Once you have the butterfly cut out, take sandpaper and sand the edges. Once the butterfly is sanded put a primer on it. Adding the primer will not only prepare the wood with a good painting surface, but will make your colors more vivid. Paint the butterfly on both sides and edges too. Depending on the size of your butterfly decide on a pleasing length for your tubes. I would measure from the top to the bottom of the wing and add about two inches. You will also have an additional two or three inches of fishing line. If you followed along with the pattern in my example, it measures ten and half inches long, four-inches at the smallest part of the wing and sweeps up and outward ward to six-inches across the top of his wings with a one-inch width body. This is a good size butterfly. I want to add three chimes and have them staggered. Cut two tubes twelve-inches long for each side and sixteen inches for the middle. I want each tube to hang two-inches from the bottom. Now that we have the measurement cut the tubes. Take the pipe cutter with the tube through it and start turning around the tube, do this until the cutter goes through. Take some sandpaper or a file and sand any burrs around the cut. Using a vise hold the tube in place to drill a small hole through the tubes. You might want to use a shop rag around the tube so the vise will not leave marks. Again use the vise to hold the butterfly in place. I used a Dremel tool to make a pilot hole for the hooks that will suspend the chimes and hang the butterfly. Make a starter hole on the top and bottom tip of each wing, and another in the middle. Drill two small holes for inserting the antennas. I think we are ready to paint our butterfly. I'm using my craft acrylic paints starting with his body. I use black with a tiny bit of white, creating a very dark gray. I want just enough of this mixture so that you can define a separation of color between his body and wings. Next I'll paint the wings. The wings are very shiny and look like silk with soft folds that are darker in the shadows and lighter on the top. To achieve this look, I used navy blue for the folds following the contour of the wings. I used a combination of watered down blue on areas then blue and white for the highlights. Paint the edges of the wings with a solid black. As you follow the wings around with the black occasionally pull some of the black into the blue with narrow streaks. Finally to achieve the shimmer I painted over parts of wings with a blue metallic. Paint both sides, and black on the edges. Finish off with a sealer. To assemble the project, use your decorative hooks and screw them into all the pilot holes. Use the wire cutters to cut the antennas to three and a half inches. Use your needle nose pliers and curl back the points. String the fishing line through the holes and attach to the butterfly. Cut wire to fit your projects location, hang it and begin to enjoy the music, you did it yourself.

Case Moth/Bag Worm/Bag Moth (Psychidae). The cocoon or case is mobile. The caterpillars are leaf miners when they are very small and may take several years before they come to the pupate stage. If it is a female, it will not develop wings and will never come out of the bag. It waits for a winged male in her bag.

The Great Spangled Fritillary is a nectar eater. It eats the nectar form a number of flowers like milkweeds, thistles, dogbane, verena, bergamot, red clover and purple coneflower.

There are thousands of species of butterfly. I cannot give you a single latin name. However I can supply their classification up to Order level.

But A Most Comman Latin Name Is Mariposa

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There are thousands of scientific names for each species of butter fly, so there is no one specific name for all butterflies.

However, the Latin word for "butterfly" is "papilio".

While some Monarch butterflies may be found in the Rainforest, the majority of them will be found in the forest, pasture lands, and sometimes urban environments. These butterflies are known to feed on several different nectar plants, including Indian hemp and butterfly weed.

Yes, moths can drink sugar water. They have a proboscis, a long straw-like mouthpart, which they use to feed on nectar, fruit juices, and other sugary liquids. Offering sugar water can be a helpful way to attract moths for observation or photography.

Yes, there are butterflies that have pink and purple hues on their wings, such as the Pink Rose butterfly (Pachliopta kotzebuea) and the Purple Emperor butterfly (Apatura iris). These colors are often the result of the reflection and refraction of light off the microscopic scales on the butterflies' wings.

Butterflies have two sources of color pigmented color and structural color. Browns and yellows come from the pigment melanin, just like how humans tan. Butterflies get their shimmer from structural color, the light passes through multiple layers of their transparent wings and creates multiple reflections of light that intensify their colors.

The purpose of Luna moths is to reproduce and continue their species. As adults, Luna moths primarily focus on finding a mate to reproduce. They also serve as a food source for predators in their ecosystem.

No. Vertebrates have endoskeletons (an internal framework of bones including a spinal column and cranium). Like all insects, moths have exoskeletons (a hard outer shell which encloses the soft flesh)

A butterfly is an invertebrate, not a vertebrate. This means that it does not have a backbone like mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish do. Butterflies belong to the phylum Arthropoda, which includes animals with segmented bodies and jointed limbs.