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    Facts About Butterflies
    Facts About Butterflies
    Facts About Butterflies
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    Facts About Butterflies

    By Saravanan Mani

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    Let's Learn About... Butterflies - Amazing Facts about Butterflies
    Have your children ever wondered EXACTLY what a butterfly's tongue looks like?
    There are so many awesome things to learn about butterflies. Why are they so colorful? What do they eat? In this book you'll find answers to these questions and many more in simple, fun language.

    In school our children aren't taught in a way that makes them curious and want to learn. I want to change that!
    This book will show your children just how interesting the world is and help excite a passion for learning.
    Your children will learn how to:

    Become curious about the world around them
    Find a motivation to learn
    Use their free time to discover more about the world - and have fun while doing so!

    And much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaravanan Mani
    Release dateJan 15, 2018
    ISBN9781370913794
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      Facts About Butterflies - Saravanan Mani

      MASTERPIECES OF NATURES

      Nature has many dishy creations, but butterflies are doubtless her masterpieces. Butterflies, the elegant, winged flowers of the beast concern, hold splendid emblem and bonnie patterns that are matchless. Butterflies actually belong to the ectozoon pedigree. Unitedly with moths, their confidential relatives, they structure the banging gather of scale-winged insects.

      The account oscillation of butterfly is unequaled. From egg to butterfly it has digit extremely several stages in its invigoration. Lets motility into the colourful, wonderful world of butterflies.

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      Butterflies known as flying flowers

      Butterflies are known as flying flowers because of their colourful bodies and wings. They come under the category of ‘insect’. A butterfly has six legs, four wings, and two antennae. The thin, delicate lines that make them colourful are called scales. Most butterflies are harmless. You can find butterflies everywhere in the world, except Antarctica.

      Butterflies are also an important part of nature because they make the flowers bloom by cross-pollination. Cross-pollination means, pollinating a flower or plant with pollen from another flower or plant.

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      Difference between butterflies and other insects

      Butterflies are insects that belong to an order named Lepidoptera, which includes moths too. Even though butterflies belong to the ‘insect’ category, they are significantly different from other insects. All insects have three main divisions to their bodies: Head, Thorax, and Abdomen.

      Insects have their skeleton around the bodies not inside them, like the mammals. Structurally, butterflies are like all other insects, but their most important difference is the scale covering on wings and body. Unlike other insects, they also have the ability to coil up their feeding tube, or proboscis.

      All insects have six legs attached to the thorax, although some butterflies have shortened front legs. The world’s most abundant creatures are the insects, whose known species outnumber all other animals and the plants combined.

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      Differences between butterflies and dragonflies

      Even though both butterflies and dragonflies are insects, both of them belong to different orders. Butterflies belong to the order Lepidoptera and dragonflies belong to the order Odonata. Butterflies and dragonflies differ in their life cycles. They also differ in their choices of habitat, diet, and morphology. Butterflies can be found in various environments ranging from rainforest to mountains.

      Dragonflies like to be around moist areas such as wetlands, ponds, streams, and lakes. Butterflies will uncoil their proboscis or feeding tube and drink nectar from flowers, whereas dragonflies much prefers flying insects like bees. Dragonflies have two pairs of wings that are transparent, straight, and have few veins. But the wings of butterflies are

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