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Writer's pictureGeorge Arun A

A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

George Arun A



We, the human and other species, who looks like a giant, have two eyes to see the world.


Do you Know? One of a small creature has 12,000 eyes to see the world.

How fascinated it is!!!!!!


yes!!

It's a one kind among many kinds of BUTTERFLIES......


Butterflies (Rhopalocera) are insects that have large, often brightly colored wings, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the superfamilies Hedyloidea (moth-butterflies in the Americas) and Papilionoidea. Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago.

Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, and after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off.



Butterflies are one of the most beautiful creatures in the world with more than 15,000 species. One such species of these creatures, the Monarch Butterflies are popularly known for their astounding facts and that they see us through their 12,000 eyes!

Monarch Butterflies have two different types of eyes. Both single, and 12000 compound eyes. The single-chambered eyes focus mainly on individual objects. Whereas their 12000 compound eyes are used as their main eyesight.


Monarch butterflies do different things depending on when they complete their metamorphosis. If they emerge in the spring or early summer, they’ll start reproducing within days. But if they’re born in the later summer or fall, they know winter is coming time to head south for warmer weather.


Some interesting facts about the Monarchs:

  • The rate at which the light flickers to form a continuous image, called the flicker-fusion rate, for Monarch butterflies to see while flying is up to 250 times higher than it is for humans. Our flicker-fusion rate is between 45-53 flickers per second.

  • A black spot on the hind wing of the male Monarch distinguishes it from the female Monarch.

  • Apart from eyes, Senses of smell support the Monarch butterflies to estimate their environment.

  • A Monarch butterfly can lay a maximum of 250 eggs per day!

  • The Monarch Butterflies store a poison called Cardiac Glycosides. This toxin is used as a poisonous Armour against its predators such as lizards, birds and frogs.

Defense

Monarchs’ colorful pattern makes them easy to identify—and that's the idea. The distinctive colors warn predators that they’re foul-tasting and poisonous. The poison comes from their diet. Milkweed itself is toxic, but monarchs have evolved not only to tolerate it, but to use it to their advantage by storing the toxins in their bodies and making themselves poisonous to predators, such as birds.


These facts have provided a popular recognition to the Monarch Butterflies, and it is wonderful, how a little and complex butterfly can have such a beautiful and beyond the future mechanism!


Do butterflies have 360 visions?

Some species of butterflies, like the empress Leilia (Asterocampa Leilia), have a visual field of about 344 degrees on the horizontal plane–only 16 degrees short of seeing all the way around its body. And vertically it is almost a full 360 degrees. The average human has a visual field of only 190 degrees.




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