What’s the life expectancy of a butterfly?
The smaller variety of butterflies live for just about a week or so but by and large an adult butterfly may live up to a month. Of course, predators, disease, habitat deterioration, pollution etc adversely affect the life span of butterflies. However, species like the Monarch, the Mourning Cloaks and the tropical heliconians live as much as nine months. Why do we not see butterflies at night? At night, or even during harsh, extreme weather conditions, butterflies perch on the underside of a leaf or between blades of grass or even in crevices of rocks and walls or other such shelter, fold their wings and go to sleep. What is the difference between a butterfly and a moth? Butterflies and moths are “cousins”. They belong to the insect family called Lepidoptera. The interesting fact is that though both moths and butterflies belong to the Lepidoptera (meaning scaly wings), butterflies constitute only 8% of the group whereas the remaining 92% is made up of moths. Butterflies are generally ve
