These are some of the weird facts on butterflies that we have gathered for you.
- The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
- A housefly, regurgitates food after eating and eating again.
- A dragon fly lives for 24 hours.
- Butterflies can have a size of 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
- Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
- Night butterflies have ears on their wings.
- The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour.
- Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
- There are about 24,000 species of butterflies.
- The Brimstone butterfly has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
- The females of some moth species don’t have wings.
- Some moths don’t have mouths.
- Many butterflies can taste with their feet.
- Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight.
- There are over a million described species of insects.
- Most insects are beneficial to human in the form of honey, silk and other medicinal uses.
- Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton.