A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea). All the many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. The earliest known butterfly fossils date to the mid Eocene epoch, between 40–50 million years ago.
Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism. Some,
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As Lepidoptera, butterflies have four wings that are covered with tiny scales (see photo). The fore and hindwings are not hooked together, permitting a more graceful flight. An adult butterfly has six legs, but in the nymphalids, the first pair is reduced. After it emerges from its pupal stage, a butterfly cannot fly until the wings are unfolded. A newly emerged butterfly needs to spend some time inflating its wings with blood and letting them dry, during which time it is extremely vulnerable to predators. Some butterflies' wings may take up to three hours to dry while others take about one hour. Most butterflies and moths will excrete excess dye after hatching. This fluid may be white, red, orange, or in rare cases,
In conclusion, In the Time of the Butterflies, is a very touching and breathtaking book that embedded the historical event into a chronological story that showed the symbolic and thematic topics that occurred in the time periods the book was set in which was from 1930’s-1990’s where Dede was telling the
12: A brief description of its reproduction activities: So first a butterfly gives lays eggs. Next it will hatch from the egg and become a butterfly. After that it will make a cocoon. After that the cocoon with break and the butterfly will come out. This is reproduction
In some cases butterflies represent beauty, freedom, and imagery. In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, The Mirabal sisters represent honor and freedom by the way they react in the book. An example of Minerva Mirabal exemplifying freedom is when she says, “I stare at Manuel de Moya as if pinning him to the wall. ‘I’d sooner jump out that window than be forced to do something against my honor’” (111). This quote explains how Minerva will stick for her true roots, and will not ever do anything to dishonor her family. Minerva and the rest of the Mirabal sisters do what they think is right and will do whatever it takes to stay true to what they believe in. Another example of the Mirabal sisters representing a butterfly is when
When the time comes for the caterpillar to create its chrysalis it turns a greyish color and begins to spin a silk-like substance into a ball on top or against a malleable surface. It then attaches its rear end to the "silk" lump and hangs upside down in a "j" position. By small contractions of the muscles it begins to shed its skin and head revealing a soft pinkish tan form. Quickly the soft form hardens and becomes greyish brown. The chrysalis stays in this form for eleven to twenty-one days. After that period of time, a small crack begins to form at the tip of the chrysalis revealing the butterfly's head. It continues to slowly move down through the bottom of the chrysalis until its legs are free to cling onto the shell of the chrysalis
To emphasize the butterflies are mentioned six times throughout the whole book. The first time they are mentioned even though they were in war it was actually a beautiful place, “ravines and gorges and fast moving rivers and waterfalls and exotic butterflies and steep cliffs.” I believe he was saying even in all this warfare it is still a beautiful place. The second time it was mentioned is the the chapter “The Man I Killed” where it lands on his chin “there was a butterfly on his chin.” I visualize that this could have two meanings one is
The Fourth of July butterfly counts occur when it's usually hot and it's never a sure thing that you won't be rained on or threatened by lightning before you finish your tally for the day. One the other hand, you don't have to get up early because butterflies aren't very active until the dew starts to dry about 9 a.m.
The Monarch Butterfly’s life cycle has four stages, it begins with the egg, the caterpillar, the pupa, and then it emerges into an Adult butterfly.The female adult monarch butterfly mates with a male butterfly, and later lays its eggs specifically on a milkweed plant. After the eggs hatch, they turn into larva. The larva then spins a silky mat which turns into a chrysalis. Finally, the larva merges into an adult monarch butterfly.
The moths first made an appearance as healing method for the narrator's ‘bull hands’, her Abuelita made a “balm out of dried moth wings and Vicks and rubbed [her] hands, shaped them back to size and it was the strangest feeling” (3). Immediately the moths are associated with healing. The dead moth wings are used to heal the wellbeing of the narrator. Later, the moths are part of the grandmother’s death, as “small, gray ones that came from her soul and out through her mouth flutter[ed] to light” (16). At the beginning of the story the moths appeared as resources to heal the narrator, now they are shown
“Before the boy could reply, a butterfly appeared and fluttered between him and the old man. He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen. Like crickets, and like expectations; like lizards and four-leaf clovers.” (Coelho,
A butterfly’s life starts out as a caterpillar, then a chrysalis, and finally the adult butterfly. In the novel The Butterfly and the Violin, Adele Von Bron start her life out as a caterpillar as Austria’s sweetheart who very dependent on her family. She then became like a chrysalis, when she began to help the Jewish family by feeding them and trying to help them escape. Towards the end of the novel is when she transformed into a butterfly, because she had suffered with the struggles of the camp and met Omara which helped her to become a strong and independent woman. In The Butterfly and the Violin, Kristy Cambron uses the butterfly as a symbol to show the relation between Adele’s life and the life of a butterfly.
Rather than declaring characteristics of the moth, Woolf states they are not “gay like butterflies” and not “somber like their own species.” She defines moths’ traits —unjoyful and unable to fit into even their own kinds—by contrasting it to other insects. As Woolf continues to
The monarch butterfly, as known as Danaus plexippus, is often called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat the milkweed plant. They are also sometimes called "royalty butterflies" because their family name comes from the daughter of Danaus, ruler of Argos. There are many other interesting facts about this butterfly including its anatomy and life cycle, where the butterfly lies on the food chain, the migration from Canada to Mexico, why the butterfly is being threatened, and lastly, what is being done to help the butterfly.
When was the last time an album was so unanimously praised? Kendrick Lamar was unescapable in 2015 and delivered with To Pimp A Butterfly not only the best album of the year, but also the most important. Kendrick isn’t the first to rap about what it’s like to be black in America, but his immaculate album struck the chord like very few before, especially in a post-Ferguson era. Released as a single this summer, Alright became an anthem sung coast to coast in every street, both by people in their cars and by protesters.
For this discussion, I am going to address one of the most significant issues in the play M. Butterfly, gender. This particular play tells the twisted love story between a French diplomat, Rene Gallimard, and a Chinese opera singer, Song Liling, whose intense relationship lasted two decades. As the play progresses, it begins slowly to become revealed that Liling is actually a man as well as a Chinese spy. Furthermore, the writer of this play, David Henry Hwang, explores the differences in gender roles among the eastern and western cultures.
In M. Butterfly, for example, the identity of Gallimard is rather difficult to define due to the multiple “performances” he puts on throughout the play. He simultaneously fulfills the roles of feminine and masculine, a heterosexual and homosexual man, the dominating and the dominated. Therefore, a reader cannot easily label Gallimard’s identity due to the multifaceted nature of how he presents himself. The main question raised in M. Butterfly, therefore, is whether or not this identity that Gallimard has created is capable of being altered, and why embracing one’s true identity, rather than a facade, is important. In the end, Gallimard eventually loses all hope of creating his own unique identity: after learning that “what [he] loved was a