Answer: Lepidoptera
Can you tell us the main difference between butterflies and moths?
Answer: Butterflies are usually active during the day, moths at night
What is the first stage of a butterfly’s life cycle?
Answer: Egg
Can you tell us the second stage of a butterfly’s life cycle?
Answer: Caterpillar (larva)
Can you tell us the third stage of a butterfly’s life cycle?
Answer: Chrysalis (pupa)
Can you tell us the final stage of a butterfly’s life cycle?
Answer: Adult butterfly
What do butterflies use to drink nectar?
Answer: Proboscis
Can you name the largest butterfly species in the world?
Answer: Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing
Can you name the smallest butterfly species in the world?
Answer: Western Pygmy Blue
Which butterfly is known for its long migration across North America?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
How many legs do butterflies have?
Answer: Six
What colors are most commonly seen on butterfly wings?
Answer: Bright colors like orange, yellow, blue, and red
Can you tell us the main purpose of butterfly wing patterns?
Answer: Camouflage and warning predators
What do butterflies eat besides nectar?
Answer: Rotting fruit, tree sap, and minerals from mud
Which butterfly is the state insect of Texas?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect in New York?
Answer: Red-spotted Purple
Can you tell us the butterfly that is the state insect of California?
Answer: California Dogface
Which butterfly is the state insect of West Virginia?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Wisconsin?
Answer: Mourning Cloak
Which butterfly is the state insect of Maryland?
Answer: Baltimore Checkerspot
Which butterfly is the state insect of Massachusetts?
Answer: Black Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Missouri?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of New Hampshire?
Answer: Karner Blue
Which butterfly is the state insect in New Mexico?
Answer: Sandia Hairstreak
Which butterfly is the state insect of North Carolina?
Answer: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Ohio?
Answer: Black Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Virginia?
Answer: Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Wyoming?
Answer: Sheridan’s Green Hairstreak
Which butterfly is the state insect of Hawaii?
Answer: Kamehameha butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Colorado?
Answer: Colorado Hairstreak
Which butterfly is the state insect of Delaware?
Answer: Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Georgia?
Answer: Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Arizona?
Answer: Two-tailed Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Oklahoma?
Answer: Black Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Alabama?
Answer: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Illinois?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Minnesota?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Vermont?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Idaho?
Answer: Monarch butterfly
Which butterfly is the state insect of Iowa?
Answer: Regal Fritillary
Which butterfly is the state insect of Mississippi?
Answer: Spicebush Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of South Carolina?
Answer: Tiger Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Tennessee?
Answer: Zebra Swallowtail
Which butterfly is the state insect of Florida?
Answer: Zebra Longwing
Which butterfly is the state insect of Kentucky?
Answer: Viceroy butterfly
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Can you tell us the main pigment responsible for orange coloration in butterfly wings?
Answer: Carotenoids
Can you tell us the main pigment responsible for black coloration in butterfly wings?
Answer: Melanin
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Painted Lady”?
Answer: Vanessa cardui
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Red Admiral”?
Answer: Vanessa atalanta
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Mourning Cloak”?
Answer: Nymphalis antiopa
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Cabbage White”?
Answer: Pieris rapae
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Common Buckeye”?
Answer: Junonia coenia
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Zebra Swallowtail”?
Answer: Eurytides marcellus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Tiger Swallowtail”?
Answer: Papilio glaucus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Spicebush Swallowtail”?
Answer: Papilio troilus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Pipevine Swallowtail”?
Answer: Battus philenor
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Clouded Sulphur”?
Answer: Colias philodice
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Orange Sulphur”?
Answer: Colias eurytheme
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Gulf Fritillary”?
Answer: Agraulis vanillae
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Regal Fritillary”?
Answer: Speyeria idalia
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Baltimore Checkerspot”?
Answer: Euphydryas phaeton
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Viceroy”?
Answer: Limenitis archippus
Can you name the butterfly that mimics the Monarch for protection?
Answer: Viceroy
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Karner Blue”?
Answer: Plebejus melissa samuelis
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Sandia Hairstreak”?
Answer: Callophrys mcfarlandi
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Green Hairstreak”?
Answer: Callophrys rubi
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Sheridan’s Green Hairstreak”?
Answer: Callophrys sheridanii
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “California Dogface”?
Answer: Zerene eurydice
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Zebra Longwing”?
Answer: Heliconius charithonia
What butterfly is known as the “Kamehameha butterfly”?
Answer: Vanessa tameamea
What butterfly is known as the “Colorado Hairstreak”?
Answer: Hypaurotis crysalus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Red-spotted Purple”?
Answer: Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Common Blue”?
Answer: Polyommatus icarus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Peacock butterfly”?
Answer: Aglais io
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small Tortoiseshell”?
Answer: Aglais urticae
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Comma butterfly”?
Answer: Polygonia c-album
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Speckled Wood”?
Answer: Pararge aegeria
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Meadow Brown”?
Answer: Maniola jurtina
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Ringlet”?
Answer: Aphantopus hyperantus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Adonis Blue”?
Answer: Polyommatus bellargus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Chalkhill Blue”?
Answer: Polyommatus coridon
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Silver-studded Blue”?
Answer: Plebejus argus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Holly Blue”?
Answer: Celastrina argiolus
What butterfly is known as the “Brown Argus”?
Answer: Aricia agestis
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Large Skipper”?
Answer: Ochlodes sylvanus
What butterfly is known as the “Small Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus sylvestris
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Essex Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus lineola
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Grizzled Skipper”?
Answer: Pyrgus malvae
What butterfly is known as the “Dingy Skipper”?
Answer: Erynnis tages
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Chequered Skipper”?
Answer: Carterocephalus palaemon
What butterfly is known as the “Clouded Apollo”?
Answer: Parnassius mnemosyne
What butterfly is known as the “Apollo butterfly”?
Answer: Parnassius apollo
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Swallowtail butterfly” in Europe?
Answer: Papilio machaon
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Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Large White”?
Answer: Pieris brassicae
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small White”?
Answer: Pieris rapae
What butterfly is known as the “Brimstone”?
Answer: Gonepteryx rhamni
What butterfly is known as the “Wood White”?
Answer: Leptidea sinapis
What butterfly is known as the “Green-veined White”?
Answer: Pieris napi
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small Copper”?
Answer: Lycaena phlaeas
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Purple Emperor”?
Answer: Apatura iris
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “White Admiral”?
Answer: Limenitis camilla
What butterfly is known as the “Silver-washed Fritillary”?
Answer: Argynnis paphia
What butterfly is known as the “Dark Green Fritillary”?
Answer: Speyeria aglaja
What butterfly is known as the “High Brown Fritillary”?
Answer: Argynnis adippe
What butterfly is known as the “Pearl-bordered Fritillary”?
Answer: Boloria euphrosyne
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary”?
Answer: Boloria selene
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Marbled White”?
Answer: Melanargia galathea
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Grayling”?
Answer: Hipparchia semele
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Wall Brown”?
Answer: Lasiommata megera
What butterfly is known as the “Gatekeeper”?
Answer: Pyronia tithonus
What butterfly is known as the “Small Heath”?
Answer: Coenonympha pamphilus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Large Heath”?
Answer: Coenonympha tullia
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Mountain Ringlet”?
Answer: Erebia epiphron
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Scotch Argus”?
Answer: Erebia aethiops
What butterfly is known as the “Small Blue”?
Answer: Cupido minimus
What butterfly is known as the “Silver-spotted Skipper”?
Answer: Hesperia comma
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Lulworth Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus acteon
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Large Blue”?
Answer: Phengaris arion
What butterfly is known as the “Black Hairstreak”?
Answer: Satyrium pruni
What butterfly is known as the “Brown Hairstreak”?
Answer: Thecla betulae
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Purple Hairstreak”?
Answer: Favonius quercus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “White-letter Hairstreak”?
Answer: Satyrium w-album
What butterfly is known as the “Green Hairstreak”?
Answer: Callophrys rubi
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small Tortoiseshell”?
Answer: Aglais urticae
What butterfly is known as the “Camberwell Beauty”?
Answer: Nymphalis antiopa
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Painted Lady”?
Answer: Vanessa cardui
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Peacock”?
Answer: Aglais io
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Comma”?
Answer: Polygonia c-album
What butterfly is known as the “Speckled Wood”?
Answer: Pararge aegeria
What butterfly is known as the “Meadow Brown”?
Answer: Maniola jurtina
What butterfly is known as the “Ringlet”?
Answer: Aphantopus hyperantus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Grayling”?
Answer: Hipparchia semele
What butterfly is known as the “Wall Brown”?
Answer: Lasiommata megera
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Gatekeeper”?
Answer: Pyronia tithonus
What butterfly is known as the “Small Heath”?
Answer: Coenonympha pamphilus
What butterfly is known as the “Large Heath”?
Answer: Coenonympha tullia
What butterfly is known as the “Mountain Ringlet”?
Answer: Erebia epiphron
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Scotch Argus”?
Answer: Erebia aethiops
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Small Blue”?
Answer: Cupido minimus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Silver-spotted Skipper”?
Answer: Hesperia comma
What butterfly is known as the “Lulworth Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus acteon
What butterfly is known as the “Large Blue”?
Answer: Phengaris arion
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Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Heath Fritillary”?
Answer: Melitaea athalia
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Glanville Fritillary”?
Answer: Melitaea cinxia
What butterfly is known as the “Duke of Burgundy”?
Answer: Hamearis lucina
What butterfly is known as the “Small Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus sylvestris
What butterfly is known as the “Essex Skipper”?
Answer: Thymelicus lineola
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Silver-washed Fritillary”?
Answer: Argynnis paphia
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Marbled White”?
Answer: Melanargia galathea
What butterfly is known as the “Grayling”?
Answer: Hipparchia semele
What butterfly is known as the “Wall Brown”?
Answer: Lasiommata megera
What butterfly is known as the “Gatekeeper”?
Answer: Pyronia tithonus
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Scotch Argus”?
Answer: Erebia aethiops
Can you name the butterfly that is known as the “Black Hairstreak”?
Answer: Satyrium pruni
What butterfly is known as the “Camberwell Beauty”?
Answer: Nymphalis antiopa
What butterfly is known as the “Painted Lady”?
Answer: Vanessa cardui