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.