Why do they call a Butterfly a Butterfly?
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Because "Margrinefly" is too hard to say.
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Organisms are classified into large groups first...but those organisms must have similar characteristics(taxonomy), so if we are classifying a butterfly...all have wings and go through a similar life cycle. From that large group, we can see that certain butterflies have specialized body shapes(morphology), and we continue to reduce the groups into those sharing the most characteristics. Those groups are further divided until we reach the Genus level where all of the ones put together have the same general anatomy, then we divide it further into the species level where every one of those organisms are the same (exceptions of both color and size may occur). It is easy if you think of some basics:\n1. Kingdoms (There are four kingdoms)\n2.Phylla (There are more than 20 phyla)\n3.Class (i.e. all mammals belong to the class Mammalia)\n4.Order (i.e. all meat-eating animals belong to Carnivora)\n5.Family (i.e. dogs, foxes, wolves belong to Canidae)\n6.Genus (i.e. Foxes belong to the genus Vulpes)\n7.Species (this identifies one of the genus specifically, i.e.\n    Vulpes zerda is the fennec fox of North Africa)
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It is in part about predator prey.  It is also in part about mazimazing food opportunities.\n\nThe predator prey thing is a tactic where in the individual has a better chance of getting thru hostile territory if there are others out to take the hit.  This is more about continuance of the species than continuance of the individual.\n\nThe food thing is about jumping in while the food available.  Butterflys, until Bees, have not evolved a method for telling everyone else where the food is.
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"Just when the Caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly" anonymous\n\nI used it once, but its so good, it begged to be used again!!
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I didn't come up with this on my own but I guess you could call it a Mummifly.\nhttp://anaba.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_anaba_archive.html
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"Where did the name ‘dragonfly’ originate? \nAnswer: We have not been able to find a definitive answer to this question. One interesting theory about its origin, however, can be found in a book written by Eden Emanuel Sarot in 1958 entitled Folklore of the Dragonfly: A Linguistic Approach. He theorized that the name dragonfly actually came about because of an ancient Romanian Folktale. In the folktale, the Devil turned a beautiful horse ridden by St. George (of St. George and the dragon fame) into a giant, flying insect. The Romanian names the people supposedly refed to this giant insect (when translated into English) mean ‘St. George’s Horse’ or, more commonly, ‘Devil’s Horse.’ According to Sarot, the peasantry of that time actually viewed the Devil’s Horse as a giant fly and that they may have started referring to it as the ‘Devil’s Fly’ (instead of Devil’s Horse). He stated that the Romanian word for Devil was "drac," but that drac was also the Romanian word for dragon. He thought that eventually the Romanian name for the Devil’s Fly was erroneously translated to the English Dragon Fly and this eventually evolved into the "dragonfly!"  "
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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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"Bug" is not necessarily a scientific term.  People commonly refer to insects as "bugs".  Butterflies are insects.\n\nMicrobiologist also refer to bacteria and other single celled organisms as "bugs".\n\nSome people also call spiders "bugs" although they are arachnids and not insects.\n\nAnd when you get a virus like a cold, people will ask "Did you catch the bug that is going around?"
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You know if it's the right one by the way you feel when you are with that person.  However, that might not mean butterflies.  You want to spend time with them all the time, you ask for their opinion on different subjects, you consider them your best friend.  It's the right one if you can't imagine your life without the other person, and you are a changed person because they are in your life.  It's the right one they make you the happiest person in the world and you can't wait to spend the rest of your life with the person.  The butterflies will fade, yes, but the feeling of love remains.
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If there is a reference to butterflies in the bible I am not aware of it.  If it is of any help to your project there is a reference in Shakespeare's King Lear:\n\nCome, let's away to prison.\nWe two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage;\nWhen thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down\nAnd ask of thee forgiveness; so we'll live,\nAnd pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh\nAt gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues\nTalk of court news; and we'll talk with them too -\nWho loses and who wins; who's in, who's out -\nAnd take upon's the mystery of things\nAs if we were God's spies.
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Its only Mayflies and Butterflies that do this not a species of monkey
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The answer depends on the species of butterfly. Each species is adapted to a habitat and their life cycle places the proper life stage at the proper time of year. So each species has evolved flight muscles that are most efficient at a particular temperature range. Early and late season butterflies are better adapted for flying in cool weather than mid-summer species.\n\nThere are several moth species (not butterflies) that live and fly in mid-winter. When temperatures are too cold to fly, they use shivering to heat their muscles up to flight temperature.
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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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it would just have a longer name. its name would be "the bug formerly known as Fly"
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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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In the larval stage, numerous butterflies have developed a means of synthesizing the poisons and storing them in the body.  These poisons are available when the butterfly is in the pupa stage and onwards, even being passed down to the eggs when they are laid by the female.  It is even thought that adult butterflies can obtain chemicals through adult feeding. Many, but not all, butterflies bearing chemicals have what is called aposematic coloring.  This is bright coloring that depends on the predators learned behavior of the distastefulness of that certain species.
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Butterflies, like most insects, have two large compound eyes made up of hundreds of smaller lenses that combine images to form a larger picture of the insect's environment.  The resolving power of these individual eyes is not great, probably detecting levels of light and dark and colour perception, but the combination adds up much like the individual pixels of the image on your computer screen or TV set.\n\nLike most flying insects, butterflies also have three ocelli that are found on their heads between their eyes, basically forming a triangle on their 'forehead'.  These ocelli are sensitive to polarized light and assist the flying insect in navigation and balance, detecting the horizon and sky and direction of sunlight.