Butterfly, the beautiful animal of nature

Butterfly is the well-known invertebrate of animal kingdom. It belongs to the class insecta of the phylum arthropoda. Being the representative animal of phylum arthropoda, it exhibits all the general characters of phylum arthropoda like body covering with the exoskeleton of chitin, jointed appendages in the body, distribution in the air and other terrestrial habitat but wide capacity of tolerance to survive even in the cold climate of the peak of the mountains. Butterflies are of different colors and they use to live in the gardens especially during the day times.
  Their body can be divided into the three parts: they are anterior head, middle thorax and the posterior abdomen. Head consists of a pair of compund eyes, a pair of clavate antennae and mouth parts. They have the siphoning type of mouth parts which is adapted for sucking up the nectars of flowers. This type of mouth part consists of a well-developed proboscis which is used to form a sucking tube for collecting nectar of flowers. They have one pair of wings which lie vertical in position when they are at the resting stage.They remain active during the day time. Such animals are called diurnal animals.