are there wingless butterflies?
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The adults of most butterflies and moths have two pairs of wings (a very few, like the cankerworm moth female are wingless).
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About this there are three theories. One, basing itself on an archaic Dutch word for butterfly, 'boterschijte' is that this reflects the color of a butterfly's bowel movements. The problem with this, of course, is that other than to\nvoid excess water, butterflies do not excrete.\n\nA second explanation, i.e., that males of the common\nbrimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni, Pieridae) of England\nare a buttery yellow.\n\nA third theory holds that, in medieval folklore, butterflies\nwere believed to be disguised witches or fairies who stole\nbutter from pantries and churns. The belief in butter-stealing fairies still existed in England at the time of Shakespeare
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What do you call a fly without any wings?\n\n\nA Walk!
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Butterflies are day-active(diurnal) insects and come out only during the day.
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Fireflies are beetles in the order Coleoptera.  Moths and butterflies are in the order Lepidoptera.  There are several families of moths and several families of butterflies.  \n\nThey are all in different families and the terms are broad enough to encompass several families.
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The Goliath Birdwing is the second largest butterfly in the world.  They drink nectar from flowers through their proboscis.  I believe that they are poisonous...so any predators would tend to avoid them.
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http://www.amazingbutterflies.com/butterflyreleaseinfo/Releasing-Butterflies.html\nor \nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=AMSA,AMSA:2006-03,AMSA:en&q=butterflies+for+wedding&spell=1\n\ngood luck!\n\nhttp://www.handweavingworkshop.com
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Here's a bit of fun trivia.  Did you know that butterflies were originally called flutterbies?  (Because they flutter-by.)  It was changed because of a misprint in the first dictionary.
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egg > larva(catapillar) > pupa(in the cocoon) > butterfly
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there is a catapillar that looks like a snake, \n\nthe monach butterfly has a yucky taste...PLUS there is another butterfly that looks almost identical, so birds avoid it, even though it tastes better\n\nthe stick bug\n\nthe leaf bug\n\nbettle with VERY hard shells
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No, it was not. The etymology of butterfly is very straightforward:OE buttor-fleoge, with the first part of the compound meaning exactly what it means today and going back as far as Greek 'boutoron', and the second common Germanic 'fleogan' (to fly), OE 'flyge' or 'fleoge', modern German 'Fliege', all of them meaning 'the fly'. The alleged spoonerism is a myth.
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That would be absolutely impossible to answer with an exact number.  First, if you mean insect species, there are many that are undiscovered.  If you mean absolute total number of every insect, well, I don't know that anyone could even come close to a real estimate, let alone an actual number.
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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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Yes there is\n\nThe largest native land invertebrate on the Antarctic continent is a tiny, wingless midge that is about 1/4 of an inch long. There are also several other types of insects that can be found, which include springtails and tiny mites. Most Antarctic insects live under rocks and stones in the soil and among lichens. Springtails are especially common around penguin colonies. They are black and shiny, and they jump around. No insects in Antarctica have wings, but they all do have a special "anti-freeze" in their cells that is a lot like the liquid that we put in our car radiators for the winter. In Antarctica, there are very few different species of insect. However, in some areas there may be millions of insects per square yard!
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vertebrates = backbone\ninvertebrates = no backbone
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Many butterflies have patterns that mimic other things.  For example, there are some with large "dots" on their back wings...These look to predators to be the eyes of a larger animal, which causes the predators to look for another meal.\nOthers have bright colors that imply poison...Some butterflies are really poisonous to predators, and some use the color to scare the predators away.
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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.