Butterflies Are The Most Beautiful Insects in the World

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Butterfly the most attractive and best known of all flying insects.Butterflies and Moths are insectscontaining more than 100,000 species worldwide in the second largest insect order - Lepidoptera (the name derived from the Greek lepis, meaning 'scale,'). This colourful, magical insects are found ubiquitously in the world except for the continent of Antarctica, but the utmost number live in the tropical area. The word butterfly comes from the erstwhile English word 'Buttorfleoge'. The attractive and flimsy wings are really translucent. The sparkling scales that lie on top each other give the butterfly's wings the colour that we see. Many butterflies and moths are bright and gray, brown or monotonously spotted fragments. Some of the Butterflies have wings with the upper exterior enclosed with bright scales and the under facade covered with dull brown ones. When of these butter flies is flying it seems like a bright flower. When it is in relax, it closes its wings and looks like a dead leaf. This helps defend it from foes.