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Entemology -
en·to·mol·o·gy
ËŒen(t)əˈmälÉ™jÄ“/
noun
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the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.


Many entomologists specialize in a single order or even a family of insects, and a number of these subspecialties are given their own informal names, typically (but not always) derived from the scientific name of the group:
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Lepidopterology - study of moths and butterflies
Fun Facts About Butterflies!
1. Butteflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
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2. Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
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3. Butterflies can see yellow, red and green.
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4. Butteflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
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5. Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico about a 2000 mile flight and then return again in the spring to the north.
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6. Antarctica is the only continent on which Lepidoptera's have not been found
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7. Top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
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8. There are about 24,000 species of Butterflies. Moths are even more with about 140,000 different species counted worldwide.
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9. Some adult moths never eat anything as adults because they don't have mouths. They must live with the energy they stored as caterpillars.
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10. Many Butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs to be their caterpillars food or not