Do butterflies have cocoons for protection? What part of the body do butterflies use to taste food?

Butterflies, commonly known as "butterflies", are brightly colored, with many stripes on their bodies and rich colors. Most of them are distributed in America, especially in the Amazon River Basin, where there are the most butterfly species. Most butterflies like to eat nectar. Does anyone want to know if butterflies have cocoons to protect them? Open the article below to see the answer you want?

Contents of this article

1. Do butterflies have cocoons to protect them?

2. What parts of the butterfly do they use to taste food?

3. Where is the butterfly's home?

4. How do butterflies fly?

Are butterflies protected by cocoons?

No. Butterflies undergo complete metamorphosis, with four stages in their life: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. After developing from eggs to larvae, they mature and become pupae after several molts. The larvae usually hide in secluded places, use a few silk threads to fix themselves, and then directly become pupae without cocoons.

Most butterflies like to eat nectar. As for those butterflies that suck nectar, they not only absorb nectar, but also only suck nectar from specific plants. Some prefer nectar from lily family, some like plants from crucifer family, and some butterflies like to eat grape pulp.

Water is indispensable for organic life, so we often see butterflies stopping on the water surface to absorb water. Every noon when the sun is scorching, there are all kinds of butterflies sucking water by the stream.

Butterflies have five types of cones, two more than humans, and can sense two colors that humans cannot name.

What part of the butterfly does it use to taste food?

The part of a butterfly that it uses to taste food is on its feet. The butterfly's sense of taste is 2,000 times more sensitive than that of a human. It can not only taste sweetness, but also salty and bitter. It is not only butterflies that have taste organs on their feet, bees are also one of these creatures.

Butterflies, commonly known as "butterflies", are a general term for animals of the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Lepidoptera, and suborder Hammerhorn. There are about 14,000 species of butterflies in the world.

Most butterflies are distributed in the Americas, especially in the Amazon River basin, where there are the most species of butterflies.

There are 1,200 species of butterflies in China. They are brightly colored, with many stripes on their bodies and rich colors. There are various spots on their wings and bodies. The largest butterfly can have a wingspan of about 30-32 cm, and the smallest is only about 0.3 cm.

Where is the butterfly's home?

The butterfly's home is not in a fixed place. The butterfly has a short life span, and when not flying, it folds its wings and rests on plants, the ground, or walls until the next flight, when it eventually mates, lays eggs, and dies.

It is the habit of butterflies to build nests on leaves. When rainy days come, they usually build nests on leaves. Some butterflies build nests on one leaf, some butterflies may build nests on multiple leaves, and some butterflies even build nests in groups.

Usually butterflies will feed within the range of their habitat, and at night they will look for suitable leaves to rest on within the range of their feeding area. They will not wake up until the sun rises the next day, and then start their day of foraging.

How butterflies fly

Butterflies fly by flapping their wings and using the air currents to fly forward. Generally, the wings of a butterfly are more than ten times larger than its body, so a slight flap can generate a lot of buoyancy. Butterflies' wings are flat, so they can only fly by flapping their wings with the help of rising air currents.

The surface of a butterfly's wings is covered with scales, which can use tiny air vortices or small-scale unstable airflows to generate aerodynamics and propel the butterfly forward.

The scales on the butterfly's wings are like a raincoat for the butterfly. They contain a lot of fat, which can protect the butterfly, so the butterfly can fly even when it rains lightly.

The butterfly's front and back pairs of wings grow on its mesothorax and metathorax respectively. The chest wall here is thick, the muscles are strong, and they are highly elastic, so they can flap their wings powerfully for long-distance travel.