Butterflies: Nature’s Colorful Messengers🌸

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Butterflies are usually active during the day. They use their long tongues to drink nectar from flowers, and while doing so, they help carry pollen from one flower to another — playing an important role as pollinators in nature.   Butterflies are both delicate and ecologically important. Climate change, habitat loss, and pesticides threaten their populations. Planting flowers and reducing chemical use can help protect them.   Some species even migrate; for example, the Monarch butterfly travels thousands of kilometers each year from North America to Mexico.

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00:00Butterflies are graceful and colorful insects belonging to the Lepidoptera order.

00:06There are about 18,000 species of butterflies worldwide.

00:10Their bodies have three parts, the head, thorax, and abdomen.

00:16They have two pairs of large wings covered with tiny scales.

00:20These scales reflect light, giving butterflies their vivid colors.

00:25The butterfly life cycle has four stages.

00:28Egg, caterpillar, larva, pupa, chrysalis, and adult butterfly.

00:35This transformation is called metamorphosis.

00:38During the caterpillar stage, they eat a lot of leaves to store energy,

00:43because most adult butterflies only drink nectar.

00:46Butterflies are usually active during the day.

00:50They use their long tongues to drink nectar from flowers,

00:54and while doing so, they help carry pollen from one flower to another,

00:59playing an important role as pollinators in nature.

01:03Butterflies are both delicate and ecologically important.

01:08Climate change, habitat loss, and pesticides threaten their populations.

01:13Planting flowers and reducing chemical use can help protect them.

01:19Some species even migrate.

01:21For example, the monarch butterfly travels thousands of kilometers each year from North America to Mexico.

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