REPORT

BUTTERFLY

By : Sandra Tresnayadi

Butterfly is an insect. Butterfly are noted for their wings, which are colorful and bright. Butterfly wings are a bit like bird wings. bird wings are made of feathers, but butterfly wings are made of

tiny overlapping scales. The wings are colored in various patterns.

Some butterfly wings look iridescent (changing rainbow colors, depending on the light) because of the way light hits the scales.

          Butterfly have an interesting life cycle. They start as eggs. When they are born, they are what we called caterpillars. This is the larva stage for the caterpillar. The caterpillars then move into a cocoon, becoming what we called a chrysalis. This is the pupal stage. When the insect comes out of the cocoon, we call it butterfly. This is the adult stage for the caterpillar. These clear stages of changing on the way to adulthood are called metamorphosis. Many animals go through metamorphosis, but the butterfly's changes are more dramatic than most. Butterfly can be found almost all over the world. there may be as many as twenty thousand different species of butterfly.

          Butterfly usually eat flower nectar. Because of this, they are important to the life cycle of many flowers. Butterfly also need minerals, which they usually get from water found in dirt and sand.