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    Etymology: Butterflies (Superfamily Butterflies (Superfamily

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    Butterflies are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera known for their often brightly colored large wings. They include true butterflies, skippers, and moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date back 40-50 million years. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry, and aposematism. Some species migrate long distances while others have parasitic relationships. Culturally, butterflies are a popular artistic motif. The word "butterfly" may come from the Dutch word "boterschijte" meaning the insect's appearance of excrement.

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    Etymology: Butterflies (Superfamily Butterflies (Superfamily

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    Butterflies are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera known for their often brightly colored large wings. They include true butterflies, skippers, and moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date back 40-50 million years. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry, and aposematism. Some species migrate long distances while others have parasitic relationships. Culturally, butterflies are a popular artistic motif. The word "butterfly" may come from the Dutch word "boterschijte" meaning the insect's appearance of excrement.

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    Butterflies are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera known for their often brightly colored large wings. They include true butterflies, skippers, and moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date back 40-50 million years. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry, and aposematism. Some species migrate long distances while others have parasitic relationships. Culturally, butterflies are a popular artistic motif. The word "butterfly" may come from the Dutch word "boterschijte" meaning the insect's appearance of excrement.

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    Etymology: Butterflies (Superfamily Butterflies (Superfamily

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    Butterflies are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera known for their often brightly colored large wings. They include true butterflies, skippers, and moth-butterflies. Butterfly fossils date back 40-50 million years. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry, and aposematism. Some species migrate long distances while others have parasitic relationships. Culturally, butterflies are a popular artistic motif. The word "butterfly" may come from the Dutch word "boterschijte" meaning the insect's appearance of excrement.

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    Butterflies are part of the class of insects in the order Lepidoptera.

    Adult butterflies have large, often


    brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the true
    butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers(superfamily Hesperioidea) and the mothbutterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). Butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, 4050 million
    years ago.[1]
    Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some, like the Monarch,
    will migrate over long distances. Some butterflies have parasitic relationships with organisms
    including protozoans, flies, ants, other invertebrates, and vertebrates. [2][3] Some species are pests
    because in their larval stages they can damage domestic crops or trees; however, some species are
    agents of pollination of some plants, and caterpillars of a few butterflies (e.g., harvesters) eat harmful
    insects. Culturally, butterflies are a popular motif in the visual and literary arts.

    Etymology
    The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word from a combination of butter and fly. It adds: "the
    reason of the name is unknown", and refers to Hensleigh Wedgwood, who "points out a Dutch
    synonym boterschijte in Kilian, which suggests that the insect was so called from the appearance of
    its excrement".[4]
    Donald Ringe writes that the name is derived from Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye,
    from Old English butorfloge, buttorfloge, buterfloge, perhaps a compound ofbutor (beater),
    mutation of batan (to beat), and floge (fly).[5]
    Butterfly eggs are fixed to a leaf with a special glue which hardens rapidly. As it hardens it contracts,
    deforming the shape of the egg. This glue is easily seen surrounding the base of every egg forming
    a meniscus. The nature of the glue is unknown and is a suitable subject for research. The same glue
    is produced by a pupa to secure the setae of the cremaster. This glue is so hard that the silk pad, to
    which the setae are glued, cannot be separated.[citation needed]
    Eggs are almost invariably laid on plants. Each species of butterfly has its own hostplant range and
    while some species of butterfly are restricted to just one species of plant, others use a range of plant
    species, often including members of a common family.[citation needed]
    The egg stage lasts a few weeks in most butterflies but eggs laid close to winter, especially in
    temperate regions, go through a diapause (resting) stage, and the hatching may take place only in
    spring. Other butterflies may lay their eggs in the spring and have them hatch in the summer. These
    butterflies are usually northern species, such as the mourning cloak (Camberwell beauty) and
    the large and small tortoiseshell butterflies.[citation needed]

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