The Butterflies...!!!

The butterflies

The butterfly is an insect of the order of the lepidopterons, the good known ones are the day butterflies, but most of the species are night (moths, sphinxes, etc.)

 

The butterflies are characterized to present the buccal pieces modified in a long proboscis that they use to suck the nectar of the flowers that they pollinate. They have two couples of wings membranous, many times of brilliant colors, prominent antennas and well developed compound eyes. 

 

The butterflies experience a complete metamorphosis. The complete vital cycle is composed of four phases: egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (cocoon or chrysalis) and adult. 

Larvar development is usually slower in temperate climates and the hope of the adult's life can be of only some few days or weeks. In arctic and alpine habitats the time of growth ends up being so short that many species they require two years for its development. 

 

The caterpillars feed of the vegetable matter that surrounds them: leaves, flowers, fruits, shafts, roots, becoming a problem for agriculture. The mature butterflies feed of great variety of substances: nectar, pollen, rotten fruit, carrion, manure, urinates and others perspired vegetables and animals. Most of the species search in an active way the nectar of the plants with flower, transporting this way pollen of some to other and contributing to the pollination process.

Each species requires one or some few species of plants for its feeding, and the extinction of a plant can drag that of a butterfly. 

Silenys Patricia Peña Araújo #29 8-B