How did the butterfly get it's colors?
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Scientificly it's heredity and changes from their parent but generally God created them that way and he can put whatever color he wants on a butterfly
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If you put a flower in water that has food coloring in it, the flower will take up the water and change color to the color of the food coloring.  Florists actually do this sometimes.
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In the case of the monarch butterfly:\n\nThese dots are made of specialized scales that, in some butterflies, emit a chemical used in courtship. Even though this chemical does not appear to be important in monarch courtship, the males still have the spots. The spots are much larger on close relatives of monarchs.\n\nAlthough I did find this on another website:\n\nSome species have developed eye-spots on their wings to resemble the vertebrate eye, sometimes set in a field of bright colour to further advertise them.  Some flash these only when disturbed to flight, while others rest with the eye-spots exposed.  The eye-spots are known to intimidate small, insect-eating birds to avoid attack, but this seems to work best at the first encounter, with birds learning quickly not to be put off.
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colors become more vibrant
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They go to the trees and hide in the leaves.  Butterflies can get wet, and they can get cold, but cold and wet will kill them.
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Moths are less colourful than butterfly, they are coloured like dead leaves or tree barks(not all of them). They can be known easily by looking at their antennae, butterflies have thin, thread-like antennae, while moth's atennae can be straight or feathery. Some of them have short, stabbing mouthparts Others, which have none at all, cannot eat and only live long enough to reproduce. Not all moths are dull in colour, a day-flying moth from Madagascar looks a lot like a butterfly but it is a moth.  Not all moths are vegetarian, several swallowtails suck up the rotting flesh of animals. Vampire Moths from Asia has a dagger-like mouthpart that it uses to suck the blood of its vintim, including humans.\nA wing of a moth and a butterfly are same, they revel thousands of scales overlapping each other, each has different sizes, shape and colour, this is what allows moths and butterflies indentify each other.\nMoths mostly go out when it is dark, to prevent predators such as birds from eating it.
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Not only the colors and scents, but some flowers emmit "smell alike" pheramones to attract certain sex of insects.\nIn addition, its also been found that not only the color of the flower attracts the insects, but also the ultraviolet radiation that certain flowers colors give off. Certain flowers colors give off colors that only the insect can see, almost like looking at a 1960's poster under a black light. They see certain colors or patterns and go for the flower.
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egg > larva(catapillar) > pupa(in the cocoon) > butterfly
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The chameleon has several cell layers beneath its transparent skin. These layers are the source of the chameleon's color change. Some of the layers contain pigments, while others just reflect light to create new colors.\n\nSeveral factors contribute to the color change. A popular misconception is that chameleons change color to match their environment. This isn't true. Light, temperature, and emotional state commonly bring about a chameleon's change in color. The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.\n\nAnother interesting fact about the chameleon is that they can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time! Creepy, huh?\n\nHere's a link to an interesting article about the chameleon from our friends at PBS.
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Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1 foot (30 cm). This tropical butterfly is from the Rainforest in northern Papua New Guinea. The caterpillars eat the pipevine plant, which contains poison; this makes the butterfly toxic to predators, which will get sick if they eat it. They quickly learn to leave these huge butterflies alone.\n\nAlso just for your edification, the smallest butterfly is the Nepticulid moth, which is 0.1 inch long.
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to get baffled see this...\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but if you put a few drops of food coloring in the water with a white flower (like a carnation), it will absorb the dye and the color.
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With the flutter of a butterfly's wings somewhere around the world...the wings beating could stir up something in the air...causing a boar to snort...scaring up an entire herd of zebras... yada yada yada.  Basically something that simple can lead to a chain of events that cause something great or huge.  It kinda reminds me of the game six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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I'm not sure, I think the candles are symbolic of their light shining on..\n\nMy husband lost a daughter to illness before we met, and at our wedding we released butterflies in memory of her. The program contained this poem:\n\nThe Butterfly \n\nHe had her there, resting on the palm of his hand for a while.\nShe was all he ever wanted.\nSometimes her wings were closed.\nMotionless.\n\nAt other times, she spread her wings open in the bright sunshine,\ndisplaying her colourful patterns.\nHe truly loved her.\nShe knew that.\n\nHe told her she was special and beautiful, he saw the beauty.\nHe appreciated her true colours.\nBut he couldn't keep her.\nHe knew that.\n\nShe was born to fly.\n\nShe had been beautiful in his hand, but in flight she soared.\nIn the garden amongst the colourful, sweet-fragranced flowers.\nHer habitat.\nFree.\n\nIn letting her go, he made her happy.\nBut she was always to remember his warmth and his love.\nAlways and forever.\nFor all of eternity. \n\n\nIt was a nice way for him to remember his daughter on a day when he would have liked for her to be there. We thought about candles and flowers, but wanted to do something special that was all our own. Get creative! It's your day- remember those you love in your own way!
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try this link:\nhttp://www.imagesfromnature.net/photos/butterflies/2001/pages/butterflies2001_009_m.html
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The butterfly effect is an example of the chaos theory at work.  Simply put (overly simply) chaos theory states that all things interact together in a chaotic but predictable way if we could understand and map every detail of everything involved. The butterfly effect is an example of this.\n\nThe Butterfly effect is a theory that states a butterfly flapping its wings in Africa could be the reason it rains in Chicago 3 days later.  Basically, if we could map how the air molocules move from the butterflies wings, and how they move other molocules and so on, it would eventually have billions and billions of molocules moving as a result of 1 butterfly cuasing currently unpredicitable effects all of the earth or universe for that matter.
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I would think that things gradually evolved over time.  There must have been enough "almost" butterflies to pro-create with the butterfly to have offspring.  So I feel it would be like being in the current of the stream and the stream would have kept pushing forward maybe a little different but in the same general direction.  Just a guess..  Good question.