Butterfly Facts

Check out our range of fun butterfly facts for kids. We revealed all the strange, unusual or bizarre information’s about butterflies. Enjoy!

• Butterflies are found in every continent except Antarctica. There are about 24,000 species.

• Butterflies are divided into two main groups called skippers (hesperioidea) and true butterflies (papilionoidea).

• The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour.
  

  Butterflies have two large eyes, which are made of many, many small parts.

• Butterflies have a long, flexible, tube-like tongue.

• Butterflies sip nectar, sap, and juices from fruit.

• Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.

• Butterflies don’t have lungs.

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

• An adult female lays her eggs on a plant.

• Caterpillars shed their skin as they grow and then they become a butterfly.

• Butterflies change four times during their lives, changes are called metamorphosis.

• Butterflies can live anywhere from 2 days to 11 months.

• The Spring Azure is one of the shortest lived butterflies lasting only a couple of days.