Fun butterfly facts!

I have gathered some interesting and fun facts about butterflies! Just read below and amaze your friends! Enjoy!
-Butterflies can only see red, green and yellow.
-The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
-There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are even more numerous: about 140,000 species
  of them were counted all over the world.
-The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
-Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
-Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two
  heavy cars full of people.
-Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
-Representations of butterflies are seen in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, which are 3,500 years old.
-Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of about 2,000 miles,
  and they will return to the north again in spring!
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