sunbeem - Irene
Blue Clipper Butterfly
A butterfly is cold-blooded and cannot fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82F – 28C. You find butterflies basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and then the veins in the wings carry heat to the rest of the body. A Clipper butterfly has a sense organ on their feet for tasting. When the caterpillar emerges from its eggshell it is the first thing that it eats and then it goes on to eat the plant on which it hatched. When it becomes a butterfly it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a proboscis which is a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw, when it has finished eating it rolls the tube back up, the two antenna on the top of their heads are used to smell, hear and feel. They have three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers.
Blue Clipper Butterfly
A butterfly is cold-blooded and cannot fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82F – 28C. You find butterflies basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and then the veins in the wings carry heat to the rest of the body. A Clipper butterfly has a sense organ on their feet for tasting. When the caterpillar emerges from its eggshell it is the first thing that it eats and then it goes on to eat the plant on which it hatched. When it becomes a butterfly it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a proboscis which is a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw, when it has finished eating it rolls the tube back up, the two antenna on the top of their heads are used to smell, hear and feel. They have three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers.