Kàtàfeefè

butterfly

organisms known by a particular common name

Subclass of	Pterygota, Hexapoda
Taxon name	Papilionoformes
Taxon common name	motyle dzienne, buławkorożne
Named after	cream, butter, woman
Has characteristic	holometabolism
Taxon known by this common name	Rhopalocera
Unicode character	🦋

Kàtàfeefè nanta sim ma tàafè-tàafè.

• Butterfly fossils
• 
  Heliconius warns off predators with Müllerian mimicry.
• 
  Giant swallowtail caterpillar everting its osmeterium in defence; it is also mimetic, resembling a bird dropping.
• 
  Eyespots of speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) distract predators from attacking the head. This insect can still fly with a damaged left hindwing.
• 
• 
• 
  Most butterflies fly by day, most moths by night: but Arctia caja is day-flying.