Butterflies- are distributed worldwide except Antarctica, totalling some 18,500 species.

  • An insect with large, attractive,colored wings. Any of numerous insect in the order lepidoptera that are active by day, characterized by chupped antennae, a slen body broad often conspicously marked wings.40002196_477184366082299_7703652461084409856_n
  • Butterflies and months are indicators of a healthy environment and a healthy ecosystem. They indicate a wind range of  invertebrates, which comprise over two-thirds of all species… These collectively provide a wide range of environmental benefits including polinations and natural pest control.
  • Butterflies are an important components of food chain, as a predators and prey. 

     Butterflies although they visit flowers often, they lack the pollen carrying structures and pollen doesn’t stick to their bodies as well as it does to bees. They lso collect nectar as their food.

Butterflies are very important to us so give them a value because without butterflies the flowers could not bear fruits and it cannot pollinate. Butterflies is just an insect but very important and useful. So become a butterfly easy and beautiful but hard to catch!!

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Karner Blue Butterfly

The Karner blue (Plebejus melissa samuelis) is an endangered subspecies of small blue butterfly which was once found in significant numbers in Miller Beach, now part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The butterfly is now mainly found in other parts of the Great Lakes states, such as Wisconsin and Michigan, in small areas of New Jersey, and also in southern New Hampshire, and the Capital District region of New York. The butterfly, whose life cycle depends on the wild blue lupineflower (Lupinus perennis), was classified as an endangered species in 1992. In May 2000, the Canadian Species at Risk Act listed the Karner blue as being locally extinct in Canada.[1] This subspecies of Plebejus melissa was first identified and described by novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The name originates from KarnerNew York (located half-way between Albany and Schenectady) in the Albany Pine Bush, where it was first discovered. Lupine blooms in late May. There are two generations of Karner blues per year, the first in late May to mid June, the second from mid-July to mid-August.In the novel Pnin, Nabokov describes a score of Karner blues without naming them.images

  • Local conservation efforts, concentrating on replanting large areas of blue lupine which have been lost to development (and to fire suppression, which destroys the open, sandy habitat required by blue lupine), are having modest success at encouraging the butterfly’s repopulation. The Karner blue is the official state butterfly of New Hampshire. The Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin is home to the world’s largest population of Karner blues, which benefit from its vast area of savannah and extensive lupine.images