
Butterflies taste through their feet.
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera.
They can live up to 12 months.
There are about 17,500 species of butterflies in the world and around 750 species in the United States.
Butterflies drink from mud puddles.
Butterflies can’t fly if they’re cold less than 86 degrees.
Butterfly wings are transparent.
An adult butterfly will eventually emerge from the chrysalis where it will wait a few hours for its wings to fill with blood and dry, before flying for the first time.
There are between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterflies.
Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
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