BUTTERFLIES
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
WHEREÂ AREÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â THEY NOW ?
Over the past few years you might have noticed there are less and less butterflies flying migrating through the United States. Due to the severe changes in weather, its estimated nearly 75% of their populaion has died. Even though butterflies can survive extreme weather, their food supply has been severely diminished and ultimately resulted in massive decline in their population. This piece is a representation of how climate change has affected the population of butterflies and bring awarness to how endangered many species of butterflies become.
DID YOU KNOW?
……..Some moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live on the energy they stored as caterpillars.
……..There are about 24,000 species of butterflies.
……..Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.
MONARCH MIGRATION
Video by Acid Math
