Examples of 'adult butterflies' in a sentence

Meaning of "adult butterflies"

adult butterflies: This phrase refers to fully developed butterflies in their mature stage after completing the process of metamorphosis. It distinguishes these mature insects from caterpillars or pupae

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The adult butterflies drink the nectar.
After about eight days the adult butterflies emerge.
The adult butterflies are brown or blackish brown.
Ledum palustre is the preferred nectar plant of the adult butterflies.
Adult butterflies emerge in early spring.
It also serves as a source of nectar for adult butterflies and insects.
Adult butterflies have sometimes been seen to visit lichens.
Some insects also lurk in or around flowers to prey on adult butterflies.
The adult butterflies are strongly dimorphic.
Larval characters are now commonly integrated with those from adult butterflies.
The adult butterflies only lay one set of eggs.
Pesticide use also contributes to declining numbers of caterpillars and adult butterflies.
Adult butterflies occasionally visit carrion to drink the fluids.
The larva are a bit more choosy than adult butterflies when it comes to food.
The adult butterflies emerge about two weeks later.

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Flights in two subsequent years represent two temporally separated populations of adult butterflies.
Adult butterflies retain responses developed at the caterpillar stage.
After two weeks, the adult butterflies emerge and take flight.
Adult butterflies are monomorphic of medium size with long wings.
Speaking of butterflies eating, adult butterflies can only feed on liquids, usually nectar.
Adult butterflies will eat the nectar from these same plants.
An anti-predation mechanism the mourning cloaks have employed as adult butterflies is camouflage.
The adult butterflies will not lay their eggs on anything else.
Ecological role Adult butterflies are minor plant pollinators.
Adult butterflies visit many flowers each day to find their favorite nectar.
Every spring, the adult butterflies would appear across Britain, without any sightings of their caterpillars.
Adult butterflies have black and yellow markings with red and blue eyespots.
Adult butterflies can only feed on liquids, usually nectar.
Adult butterflies consume only liquids, ingested through the proboscis.
The adult butterflies announce their acquired toxicity with strong aposematic colours, warning off predators.
Adult butterflies typically have a wingspan of 75 mm.
Adult butterflies collected in September 2011 showed more severe abnormalities than those collected in May.

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