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10 Fascinating Facts About Butterflies
Butterfly Wings Are Transparent.
Butterflies Taste With Their Feet.
Butterflies Live on an All-Liquid Diet.
A Butterfly Must Assemble Its Own Proboscis—Quickly.
Butterflies Drink From Mud Puddles.
Butterflies Can't Fly If They're Cold.
A Newly Emerged Butterfly Can't Fly
Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off.
