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Adults are very robust and fast flyers, and many are strongly attracted to drink liquids from carrion, dung, and rotten fruits, rather than nectar from flowers. [1] Males establish territories and perch on tree trunks, branches, and even the ground. [1] The eggs are smooth and round and generally with a somewhat concave apex.
The body of an adult butterfly or moth (the imago) has three distinct divisions, called tagmata, connected at constrictions; these tagmata are the head, thorax, and abdomen. Adult lepidopterans have four wings – a forewing and a hindwing on both the left and the right side of the thorax – and, like all insects, three pairs of legs. [11]
Butterfly adults are characterized by their four scale-covered wings, which give the Lepidoptera their name (Ancient Greek λεπίς lepís, scale + πτερόν pterón, wing). These scales give butterfly wings their colour: they are pigmented with melanins that give them blacks and browns, as well as uric acid derivatives and flavones that ...
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
The length of the wings is 31–34 mm for males and 28–36 mm for females. Adults are on wing nearly year round. They are notable for the presence of blue pigments in their wings, as opposed to blue created by physical structures. The larvae feed on Alchornea costaricensis and Plukenetia volubilis.
Butterfly wings or similar phrasings may refer to: Lepidoptera wings, literal sense; butterfly effect, a proverbial illustration of the chaos-theory idea that small causes can have large effects; Wings of a Butterfly Nebula, name for planetary nebula M2-9 "Wings of a Butterfly", a 2005 song by HIM from the album Dark Light
The emergent adult hangs upside down for several hours while it pumps fluids and air into its wings, which expand, dry, and stiffen. The butterfly then extends and retracts its wings. Once conditions allow, it flies and feeds on a variety of nectar plants.
The adult butterfly emerges from the pupa after three to four weeks, still inside the ant nest. The butterfly must crawl out of the ant nest before it can expand its wings. Several evolutionary adaptations enable these associations, including small glands on the skin of the caterpillars called "pore cupola organs".