Common Butterfly

The Common Butterfly is an insect belonging to the order Odonata, suborder Anisoptera.

Butterflies have the typical four-stage insect life cycle. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out and, after its wings have expanded and dried, it flies off.

Butterflies are often polymorphic, and many species make use of camouflage, mimicry and aposematism to evade their predators.