Butterflies are sacred pollinators that maintain thin red line of life. They keep balance, they make plants and trees thrive.
So how butterflies are classified?
Entomology is the branch of zoology that study insects. Right now this field is on fire with the rapid advances of genetics, CRISPR, and the rise of science, scientific literature and tools for laboratory.
Meet one of the top 5 most beautiful and hard workers, and adventurer’s pollinator of North America. Yes beautiful and shining butterflies!
Butterflies are essential in maintaining ecosystems as pollinators they keep alive and flourishing a lot of species of plants that sustain a lot of herbivorous animals that relies on vegetables to keep living and to serve sometimes as food for carnivorous animals.
Butterflies mean balance.
5. Gulf Fritallary
Gulf Fritallary
The Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) is a bright orange butterfly in the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae.
4.Dione moneta
Dione moneta, the Mexican silverspot, is a species of butterfly of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae
Dione Moneta
3.Melanis Pixe
Melanis Pixe
Melanis pixe, the red-bordered pixie, is a species in the butterfly family Riodinidae.
2.Icaricia icarioides
Also known as Boisduval’s blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in North America
Icaricia icarioides
1.Monarch butterfly
In the family Nymphalidae, an intense traveler that has adventure in its DNA, a powerful GPS that communicates and senses the earth magnetic field. The absolute monarch with strong dinasty.
Monarch butterfly
By the way I made and Android and iOS app to recognize North American Butterflies:
145 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period. “Butterflies have highly adapted hairs that contain colored pigment.” This help for camouflage, to confuse predators, for regulating temperature, and even for mating.
Learn how butterflies evolved. They have a singularity pattern found on its wings, a mathematical pattern that makes a specie unique among others.
When they appeared? How many families, genus, groups, species and subspecies of butterflies are extant, and who others are extint?
By the way I made an app for Butterfly Identification available on iOS here.