Butterfly feeding on banana, Budapest Zoo, Hungary

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Butterfly is any of several groups of mainly day-flying insects of the order Lepidoptera, the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, butterflies' life cycle consists of four parts, egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering comprise the true butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea), the skippers (superfamily Hesperioidea) and the moth-butterflies (superfamily Hedyloidea); all the very many other families within the Lepidoptera are referred to as moths. Butterflies exhibit polymorphism, mimicry and aposematism.

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Size: 3388px × 5082px
Location: Budapest Zoo, Hungary
Photo credit: © Martin Karius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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