How si the butterfly adapt to its environment?
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It doesn't adapt to it's environment, it only lives and survives in conditions that it is suited to. In the winter it hibernates and it the summer it flies around and feeds.
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so if a butterfly flaps its wings it creates a tiny bit of wind, right? the theory is that if that butterfly creates that bit of wind, it changes the strength of the wind overall, and so alters the weather, and the weather alters peoples' plans and the survival of species and a million other things... \n\nit's one way of saying that nothing is so insignifigant that it doesn't make a difference, and the smallest things can still have huge impacts. it's a metaphor for chaos theory.\n\ni reccommend the second link, it's more fun. wikipedia is more informative, though.
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caterpillars don't reproduce.\n\ncaterpillars is part of a stage of becoming a butterfly. Really, they are kids, and when they become a cocoon, they are teenagers. When they emerge out of their cocoon, they are like adults.\n\nIn other words, caterpillars are not ready to reproduce, or they aren't so developed yet.\n\nYet the only way the caterpillar population increases is if more butterflies make more eggs that will soon become caterpillars.
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The length of these journeys far exceeds the lifetime of a Monarch (lives four days as egg, two weeks as caterpillar, ten days as chrysalis, and two to six weeks as a butterfly). \n\n\nMetamorphosis\nThe life cycle of a Monarch includes a change of form called complete metamorphosis. The Monarch goes through four radically different stages:\n\nThe eggs are laid by the females during spring and summer breeding months. \nThe eggs hatch, revealing worm-like larva, the caterpillars. The caterpillars consume their egg cases, then feed on milkweed, and sequester substances called cardenolides, related to the cardiac glycoside digitalis. During the caterpillar stage, Monarchs store energy in the form of fat and nutrients to carry them through the non-feeding pupa stage. \nIn the pupa or chrysalis stage, the caterpillar spins a silk pad on a twig, leaf, etc. and hangs from this pad by its last pair of prolegs. It hangs upside down in the shape of a 'J', and then molts, leaving itself encased in an articulated green exoskeleton. At this point, hormonal changes occur, leading to the development of a butterfly. \nThe mature butterfly emerges after about two weeks.
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Animals and plants develope unique features that help them to adapt to their enviroment.
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They adapt to their surroundings... where they live, the animals around them, the plantlife, the food they eat, the climate, etc.\n\nHere is a bunch of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_bear . You can find the specific details to each thing I listed.
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Because Dog was already taken. \n\nActually, as I recall it's because the wings of a butterfly has a tendency of picking up alot of pollen, and much like when you were a kid and you took a dandelion and brushed it against your skin it would leave a yellow (buttery color) residue, a butterflys wings would do the same. A buttery color dust would be left behind, so I guess they connected the color of the dust to the idea that this thing flies.
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They are likely following air currents-Flies dont think about where they are going-they dont really "think" at all, in terms of making decisions.  THey just have simple reactions to ari currents, heat, light, and chemical sensations (food)-If they are circling, its because there are air current moving in a circular motion, and they are following those.
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Do your own homework!\n\nBut nematodes are in a funny spot, since they may or may not have changed much in a long, long time.  Of course this probably just suggests that they are about perfectly adapted to the environments they choose to live in, and any mutation that individuals may have undergone offered no significant advantage.
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They have evolved and adapted to just about every Biome and environment on Earth.  They are found deep in Ocean on on Mountains, in frigid cold water and on warm tropical islands.  They are defined as successful because of their ability to evolve to so many places.  (Also, they're physically tough, often with an outer shell and a compact muscular body and some are decomposers feeding off dead animals, while others attack living organisms)\n\n-Science methods teacher trainer
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Hi,\n\nGalileo was faced by similar queries and this is his response:\n\nShut yourself up with some friend in the main cabin below decks on some large ship, and have with you there some flies, butterflies, and other small flying animals. Have a large bowl of water with some fish in it; hang up a bottle that empties drop by drop into a wide vessel beneath it. With the ship standing still, observe carefully how the little animals fly with equal speed to all sides of the cabin. The fish swim indifferently in all directions; the drops fall into the vessel beneath; and, in throwing something to your friend, you need throw it no more strongly in one direction than another, the distances being equal; jumping with your feet together, you pass equal spaces in every direction. When you have observed all these things carefully (though there is no doubt that when the ship is standing still everything must happen in this way), have the ship proceed with any speed you like, so long as the motion is uniform and not fluctuating this way and that. You will discover not the least change in all the effects named, nor could you tell from any of them whether the ship was moving or standing still. In jumping, you will pass on the floor the same spaces as before, nor will you make larger jumps toward the stern than toward the prow even though the ship is moving quite rapidly, despite the fact that during the time that you are in the air the floor under you will be going in a direction opposite to your jump. In throwing something to your companion, you will need no more force to get it to him whether he is in the direction of the bow or the stern, with yourself situated opposite. The droplets will fall as before into the vessel beneath without dropping toward the stern, although while the drops are in the air the ship runs many spans. The fish in their water will swim toward the front of their bowl with no more effort than toward the back, and will go with equal ease to bait placed anywhere around the edges of the bowl. Finally the butterflies and flies will continue their flights indifferently toward every side, nor will it ever happen that they are concentrated toward the stern, as if tired out from keeping up with the course of the ship, from which they will have been separated during long intervals by keeping themselves in the air. And if smoke is made by burning some incense, it will be seen going up in the form of a little cloud, remaining still and moving no more toward one side than the other. The cause of all these correspondences of effects is the fact that the ship's motion is common to all the things contained in it, and to the air also. That is why I said you should be below decks; for if this took place above in the open air, which would not follow the course of the ship, more or less noticeable differences would be seen in some of the effects noted.\n\nAlthough, this seems obvious to us now in its day it was quite startling. But it is the same for an Astronaut on a space walk. His craft appears stationary to him, although both he and it a traveling at great speed. So, we judge that something is moving only by its movement relative to us or some other object.\n\nThis, if you like, is Galilean relativity, we judge objects to be moving only if they are moving relative to our frame of reference.
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It depends on the species, but usually when the weather is warms up, or it rains or something.
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I have always favored the butterfly opsed to any other insect.  however if to be a butterfly i would have to go through the evolving part i would say know.  I have stepped on many a caterpiller.  oops!  i have a tatoo of a butterfly that used to be a spider.  I callit my spiderfly.  my fiance calls me his iron butterfly.  cause i am strong and yet gental.
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the butterfly it helps stretch out your legs
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There are very big differences depending upon species.\nMonarch and Red Admiral butterflies live long enough to migrate.\nSome butterflies hibernate, e.g. Red Admiral.\nThere are many species that can only survive the Winter as dormant pupae.\nSometimes there can be two or three complete life cycles within a season.\nOccasionally the life span of the imago (the 'butterfly') is indeed very short but remember that insect life cycles involve:\negg - larva (caterpillar) - pupa (crysallis) - imago.\nGenerally, only the pupal stage overwinters.
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The process of adaptation cannot be appreciated in a single organism, but only in a population. This is because adaptation is a RELATIVE condition, that is, relative with respect to a particular environment, and with respect to other individuals/species. \nNatural selection acts on the variation that arises naturally and randomly in each generation of individuals, so that those individuals best adapted to the extant environmental conditions leave more offspring which, presumably, will inherit these characteristics (assuming they're at least partly hereditary). Thus those "more adaptive" traits will spread in the population, and the population as a whole will be better adapted. \nHowever, as environmental conditions vary, some traits that were "better" may become "worse", and the population will evolve in a different direction.. or become extinct.\nThe changes in individuals that occur during their lifetime are _not_ adaptation, but a different phenomenon called ACCLIMATION.
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This makes little sense, but the answer is "No".\nNature doesn't make things that follow a set path. Living things explore all possible paths, and the environment limits which behaviors provide a Net Creativity for each species (in that environment). As things change, we need this lack of discipline to be able to adapt to new environments.\nLife is Chaotic because it lives in a chaotic universe.