The butterfly or moth is the adult state of this insect flying. There
are thousands of species around the world, and can be day or night.
Usually females are larger than males and have a different coloration.
As their morphology in adult state, there are three parts: the head,
thorax and abdomen. They have four wings scales and very different
designs and colors.
To become a butterfly, this insect goes through a process of
development. The first stage is the egg, which later will become larva
or caterpillar, in this second phase focuses on nutrition and growth.
In the third stage, chrysalis, is the transformation of the tissues of
the larva of structures that will shape the insect. Finally becomes a
butterfly, whose stage cover their reproductive function and mobile
species, migrate and colonizes new habitats. The female lays hundreds
and even thousands of eggs.
His diet was mainly basa in plants, some species eat only one type of
plant. By espiritrompa suck nectar from flowers, it is an oral
extensible structure.
The largest butterfly found so far, is a female of about 30 cm in size,
and is in Papua New Guinea. Get the name of Ornithoptera ALEXANDRA and
is a species that is protected.
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