Fun Facts About Butterflies

#1 Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
#2 Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
#3 Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
#4 The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
#5 Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles, and return to the north again in the spring.
#6 Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
#7 Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
#8 Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
#9 There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world.
#10 The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months