How Do Butterflies Have Sex

Explore the amazing abilities of butterflies – from camouflage to chemical weaponry.

What are butterflies and moths? Butterflies and moths are a group of insects called Lepidoptera. Like all insects, butterflies and moths have a head, thorax, abdomen, two antennae, and six legs.

From those small cabbage whites to the largest swallowtails, butterflies are beautifully unique creatures. But how much do you know about them?

The head is where many sensing organs and the mouth parts are found. Like the adult, the larva also has a toughened, or sclerotized head capsule. Here, two compound eyes, and chaetosema, raised spots or clusters of sensory bristles unique to Lepidoptera, occur, though many taxa have lost one or both of these spots.

It’s the intriguing question posed by Liz Hurley in an interview this week: Do people really have more sex in the country than in the city? We asked two married women writers who have lived in the city, but have now moved to the countryside, to give their views.

If you’d rather see butterflies on a mountaintop than slather yourself with sunblock on a tourist-packed beach in Cancun, Mexico is an ideal winter destination.

How do butterflies eat? Butterflies have build-in mouth parts called a proboscis, which is a soda-straw like tube, allowing butterflies to slurp nectar from deep inside a flower.

What It Means If You Get “Butterflies in Your Stomach” Around Someone (Even When You’re in a Relationship With Someone Else)

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths.Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

Directed by Mariano Barroso. With Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Edward James Olmos, Mía Maestro. In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal teens who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.