Want to know it? Where do Butterflies Live
By: Want To Know It
Butterflies are amazing animals that are adored by millions of people worldwide. Butterfly watching is a popular hobby for many people. Butterflies are important ecologically as they are one of the major sources of pollination. This article will answer the question where do butterflies live by analyzing what countries and climates butterflies live in and looking at where butterflies live at different stages of their life cycles.
What Countries and Climates Do Butterflies Live In?
Butterflies are found in nearly every single country in the world. Butterflies can be found in the United States, Canada, all across Europe, Australia and throughout Asia. Different species of butterflies will live in cold, hot, dry and humid conditions. The only places butterflies are not found are in extremely cold places (such as Antarctica) and very arid deserts. There are an estimated 18,000 different species of butterflies worldwide. So now you what countries butterflies live in, but that doesn’t fully answer the question where do butterflies live. Do butterflies live in trees, on plants or do they dig holes in the ground? To answer that, we will look at where butterflies live at different stages of their life cycle.
Eggs
Butterflies generally lay their eggs near winter on plants. So butterflies live on plants for the first stage of their life cycle.
Caterpillar
Like the butterfly eggs, caterpillars spend nearly all their time on plants. Nearly all caterpillars are herbivores and eat plant leaves exclusively, but some species of caterpillars eat insects that are found on the plants. Caterpillars are basically just eating machines that spend nearly all their time on plants eating plant leaves (and occasionally insects).
Butterfly
One of the most amazing transformations in nature is the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly. But where does the butterfly live in this stage of its life cycle? Well, butterflies live a lot of their lives flying around in the air looking for food and pollinating flowers. Butterflies primarily live around flowers as they eat their nectar. Butterflies will also live on plants, to eat the plant sap, or near rotting fruits.
Conclusion
So you now know the full answer to the question where do butterflies live. You know that butterflies live in nearly every country in nearly every climate in the world and know that butterflies spend much of their time living on plants and flowers.
19 Comments for Where do Butterflies Live
1. Nitya Relan | January 12th, 2009 at 7:39 am
amazing facts about butterflies.
2. Farah el barbary | January 13th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Do butterflies sleep? if yes where?
3. Want to know it | January 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Yes, butterflies do sleep during the night and in periods of bad weather. They will usually hang from the underside of leaves, crawl into some bark or sleep between rocks. They do this to protect themselves from the weather and so they cannot be seen by other animals who might eat them!
4. Aurdey | February 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
great facts
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11. Michelle David | August 11th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
So, do butterflies generally fly in the ocean? My mother recently passed, and as I was sitting on my cruise balcony, white butterfly after another in the middle of the ocean flew by. On the deck also-we asked one of the servers if this was usual, and he said he never saw this before.
I truly believe in signs, and believe those butterflies were my mother guiding us along.
However, DO butterflies generally fly out in the ocean like that.
12. Want to know it | August 12th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Hi Michelle,
Butterflies sometimes fly out over the ocean. They won’t go too far, however, as they need to find more flowers to eat.
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