Butterflies

Butterfly, butterfly, flutter around.

Butterfly, butterfly, touch the ground.

Butterfly, butterfly, fly so free.

Butterfly, butterfly, land on me!

Butterfly, butterfly, reach the sky,

Butterfly, butterfly, say good-bye

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Red Cracker Butterfly

Morpho Butterfly Sipping Orange Juice

Owl butterflies

Swallowtail

Painted Lady

Common Buckeye

Monarch Butterfly

Chart of Butterfly Facts• Approximately 24,000 species in the world.

• Butterflies can taste with their feet.

• They don’t have lungs, but breathe through holes, called spiracles, in their abdomen.

• Butterflies can see the colors red, yellow and green.

• Their wing color is caused by millions of overlapping scales.

• They taste with their antennae.

• Butterflies don’t have a mouth. They drink nectar through a straw that they can roll up and down, called a proboscis.