Basic Facts About Butterflies

Butterflies (sequence: Lepidoptera) are vivid color flying insects with two pairs of big feathers, colors and patterns vary from species to species. Butterfly wings are covered with overlapping small scales, and unique butterflies are shared with their fellow Lepidoptera.

The first meal of the caterpillar is its own eggshell. Then it spends most of that time to eat the leaves of the plants it hatches. Adult butterflies sip nectar from flowers, extract juice from rotten fruits, and spread the snouts like that long straw that extracts water from the puddle

The exact number is unknown. Because there are about 17,500 butterflies in almost the whole world.

In addition to Antarctica, butterflies are discovered all over the world. Many species move to avoid bad conditions. Most travel distances are relatively short, but monarchs and some other species move thousands of miles.

Life cycle: From eggs to adults, butterflies experience a series of physical changes called metamorphosis. After copulation, female butterflies lay eggs on larval food or 'host' plants. Depending on whether the conditions are appropriate, eggs may hatch within a few days, or within a few months, or even within a few years.

After hatching, the caterpillar starts to eat the main plants. At this stage, the caterpillar can be peeled off the skin many times. It then searches for protected areas, hangs itself through the thread, and finally falls. Some days, months, even years later, adult feathers that have developed completely, depending on species, emerge from the pupa and the cycle begins again.

Defense Mechanism: Many butterflies developed an interesting way to protect them from predators. One way is camouflage, or "hidden coloration", where the butterfly has the ability to look like a leaf or blend into the bark to conceal predators. Another way is chemical defense, where butterflies have evolved to include toxic chemicals in the body. These butterfly seeds are usually vividly colored and predators learn to associate their vivid colors with the unpleasant tastes of chemicals over time.

The biggest threat to butterflies is habitat change and loss due to housing development, commercial development, agricultural development. Climate change also threatens the butterfly seeds. The checkered butterfly of the edit along the west coast from Baja to Canada is moving toward Kitakami. But due to two subspecies - the bay and keno, their progress has been hindered by the vast urban landscape of San Francisco and San Diego respectively. Both variants are currently seriously injured

At first glance this may sound like the famous "butterfly effect" of chaos theory, and the flapping of California butterfly's feathers eventually caused a hurricane in central Atlantic. But in reality, these two are fundamentally different. The extraordinary (and disturbing) nature of butterfly effect is that it contains almost unknown chain of causation; you have a link between the air molecule bouncing around the butterfly and the storm system brewed by the Atlantic Ocean I can not draw it. They may be connected because everything is connected to some extent, but they can not be parsed. Or predicting them in advance is even more difficult. However, the way flowers and hummingbirds work are very different. Needless to say the basic biological system, the flower has obvious influence on the hummingbird landscape.

The basic principle that explains the chaos theory is called butterfly effect. Butterfly effect means that the initial condition has changed slightly, which ultimately results in a large dynamic change. The term "butterfly" is obviously used for transition from caterpillar to butterfly. The folklore used to better explain this butterfly effect is as follows: The distinguishable symbol associated with butterfly effect is Ellen Watlenz 's Lorentz attractor. He is a curious meteorologist seeking ways to simulate chaotic behaviors of gas systems. The Lorenz attractor is based on three differential equations, three constants and three initial conditions. The retractor represents the behavior of the gas at any point and its state at any point in time depends on the state at the previous point in time.