A Wonderful World of Moths and Butterflies

Did you ever wonder where butterflies and moths come from, where they go, how they live and where they die? If you search into the history of it you will definitely be excited. Both are having the same shape and have the same kind of tissues; yet they are different from each other in many natures.

Butterflies fly around in the daytime to obtain their food; but moths fly around at night and rest during the day. The males are more beautiful than the females. Some believe that the creator has given dull colors to the female butterfly and moth for protection. The females do not fly as often as the males and could be caught more easily if they were brightly colored. The females are the mothers of the babies and should be protected. The creator made the underside of the wings and the body more dull and gray than the upper side. When they rest on the hard objects, they fold their wings about their body so the bright colors are not seen. These creatures have three pairs of legs, which are used almost entirely for resting. Their wings are covered with very tiny scales that overlap one another like shingles or tiles on a roof. It has been said that there are one million scales to the square inch.

The juices in their bodies are so repulsive and that nothing will eat them. This is another means of defense given to them by its creator. It lay their eggs where their babies can easily find their food. The cabbage butterfly lays her eggs on the cabbage leaf. Some butterflies lay their eggs on long flexible branch of some trees, because their babies' thrive on such leaves. It is very interesting to note that once the mother lays her eggs, she never return back to see what happens to it.

Yet another interesting fact is that the butterfly and the moth come from a caterpillar. This in itself is one of the many mysterious miracles God does in nature. The caterpillar throws out little threads of sticky liquid which come together to make a delicate string. This hardens at once as a single, strong, continues thread. It is this thread which the caterpillar weaves into a casing around itself-called a cocoon-in which it stays through the winter. When the cocoon is finished, it becomes waterproof, heat proof and light proof.

We do not know what happens in that sealed cocoon. We only know that a caterpillar with 14 legs and fuzzy hair entered it, and a butterfly with six legs and two beautiful wings comes out of it. The caterpillar had hair; the butterfly has scales. The caterpillar was brown or yellow; the butterfly has many beautiful colors. The caterpillar could only walk; the butterfly can fly. This is a mysterious change take places inside the cocoon.

The research and studies conducted on these creators reveals that, there are 66,000 different types of butterflies and moths are in this world. But all of them go through the same kind of experience of changing from caterpillar to butterflies and moths. What a wonderful world we are living in. It is more wonder that we think of its creator