They are cute. They are beautiful. They are colorful and they fly in your garden. Beautiful winged-creatures adding a touch of beauty to your garden but there’s more about them that only few people know and this list shares some of the interesting facts about these butterflies.
- Butterflies can only see green, yellow and red. No wonder why they are always seen on gardens.
- The average fastest flight speed they can do is 12 miles per hour. Cool…That’s FAST-cinating…
- Their wings are actually transparent. Blame it to the iridescent scales. It’s responsible for giving the wings the color that we see.
- They taste with their feet and not with their mouths. Why? Because they don’t have mouths. Their taste sensors are located on their feet.
- They can only fly when there is sun. Why? They are cold-blooded and they can only fly if the temperature is high enough. [say 60 degrees and above]…
- They smell with their antenna. Cool. First they taste with their feet and now, they smell with their antenna.
- They weigh about 2 rose petals. That light you can’t even feel it if it settles on your shoulder.
- They excrete red liquid that looks like blood. Some people mistook it as blood and even touch it to make sure but the truth is. It’s their waste material. LOL
- Butterflies are originally called FLUTTERBY.
- They live 20-40 days in average. But some of their kinds live up to 6 months..