Butterfly

Hi friend ......... This time we will discuss about insects that have beautiful wings and variety, what is there that know? yups, the answer is Butterfly. Well let's look at this explanation.

Butterflies are a type of insect that belongs to the order of Lepidoptera that is insects with winged scales. Butterflies have beautiful and varied colors. Butterflies are diurnal animals or animals that are active during the day. Butterflies can live for a week or half a month depending on the species. Butterflies can report metamorphosis, ie processes that occur in workers who are undergoing physical processes or processes after birth or penetration.

Butterflies commonly suck nectar or honey flower there are also some types who like to use fluids derived from decayed fruit that has been dumped to the ground, carcasses, bird droppings and wet soil, while at the time of being a caterpillar, caterpillars only serve the leaves.



Life cycle or metamorphosis of butterflies starting from eggs. Butterfly eggs are usually on the leaf surface. Eggs then hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillar will eat for days, after a while the caterpillar will stop eating, and begin to turn into a cocoon. This cocoon period lasts for days. When it is perfect, butterflies emerge from the cocoon and after that become beautiful and beautiful adult butterflies. adult butterflies will breed again by laying (ovipar). Then from the eggs it will experience the process of metamorphosis again.

Here is an extended time of life or metamorphosis of butterflies:

Eggs touch on leaves 2-7 days

Caterpillars (larvae) live 14-20 days by changing the skin as much as 4-5 times

Cocoon / pupa (chrysalis) 14-16 days, and when the newly hatched butterfly takes 1 to 2 hours to dry the wings before flying for the first time.

Adult butterflies (imago) are active 14-24 days, about 7% live for copulation / mating.