Butterfly pinyin: hú dié, both 2nd tone. Butterfly tones: yangping + yangping.

1, butterfly, commonly known as "butterfly," is a collective name for animals in the phylum Arthropoda, order Insecta, order Lepidoptera, and suborder Hammerhorn. There are more than 14,000 species in the world, most of which are distributed in the Americas, especially in the Amazon River Basin, where there are the most species. There are 1200 species in China. Butterflies are generally brightly colored, with many stripes on their bodies, rich colors, and a variety of spots on their wings and bodies. The largest butterflies can spread their wings up to about 28-30 centimeters, while the smallest ones are only about 0.7 centimeters. The main difference between butterflies and moths is that butterflies have a pair of rod-like or hammer-like antennae on their heads, while moths have antennae of various shapes.

2, butterfly larvae feeding object, according to the species and different, most of the larvae feeding on leaves; some species, such as pollen butterfly, orange spotted pink butterfly and so on feeding on flower buds; There are also some kinds of moths feeding on young pods or young fruits, for example, pod gray butterfly moths feeding on young pods, gardenia gray butterfly moths feeding on young fruits of gardenia. In addition, in the gray butterfly family, there are a few species of larvae are carnivorous, for example, mealybug gray butterfly to eat coffee mealybugs, bamboo aphid gray butterfly to eat bamboo aphids, this kind of carnivorous species in the butterfly is not common beneficial insects.