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Butterflies belong to the group of insects are the most numerous animals that exist in the animal kingdom.

The light and the flight of the butterflies.

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It is not that the light attracts them, but that it disorients them. When they fly at night, the butterflies are guided by the moon. They know that they will be flying in a straight line while the moon shines before their eyes from the same position. But when they pass near a lantern, which is in the opposite position, they leave their flight in a straight line and approach the lantern making spirals, in order to have the light always on the same side.

** The calavera butterfly ** is named after the peculiar markings on its back. It lives in #Euraisia. At night he is flying stealing beehives that have such a sweet smell of honey, and although the bees keep an alert, the butterfly slips through the hive and makes its way to the cells to drink honey. Sometimes the bees discover that one of these large butterflies has not managed to get out of the hive and kill the intruder by covering it with wax.

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Some butterflies have special markings on their wings to scare their enemies. A type of pavon butterfly, while resting, is camouflaged by the disguised color of the lower part of its wings, which opens at the first sign of danger. The birds that try to catch the butterfly suddenly contemplate what looks like an owl. Another type of butterfly, while resting, looks like the face of a sleeping cat. When he gets scared, he shakes himself sharply forward, so that it seems that the cat has suddenly opened its pair of menacing eyes and thus frightens its enemies.

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