Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which includes moths.
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12 Facts About Butterflies
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Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo complete metamorphosis.
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Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry, and aposematism to evade their predators.
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Butterflies evolved from moths, so while the butterflies are monophyletic, the moths are not.
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Butterflies are important as pollinators for some species of plants.
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Butterflies are able to change from one mode to another rapidly.
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Butterflies are threatened in their early stages by parasitoids and in all stages by predators, diseases and environmental factors.
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Butterflies protect themselves from predators by a variety of means.
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Butterflies have evolved mechanisms to sequester these plant toxins and use them instead in their own defence.
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Butterflies have appeared in art from 3500 years ago in ancient Egypt.
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Butterflies are widely used in objects of art and jewellery: mounted in frames, embedded in resin, displayed in bottles, laminated in paper, and used in some mixed media artworks and furnishings.
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Butterflies published the results in the folio sized handbook The Natural History of British Butterflies in 1924.
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