What was butterfly original name

Depending on the species, the pupa may suspended under a branch, hidden in leaves or buried underground. The pupa of many moths is protected inside a coccoon of silk. This stage can last from a few weeks, a month or even longer. Some species have a pupal stage that lasts for two years. It may look like nothing is going on but big changes are happening inside. Special cells that were present in the larva are now growing rapidly.

They will become the legs, wings, eyes and other parts of the adult butterfly. Many of the original larva cells will provide energy for these growing adult cells. The adult stage is what most people think of when they think of butterflies.

They look very different from the larva. The caterpillar has a few tiny eyes, stubby legs and very short antennae. The adults have long legs, long antennae, and compound eyes. They can also fly by using their large and colorful wings. The one thing they can't do is grow.

The caterpillar's job was to eat. The adult's job is to mate and lay eggs. Some species of adult butterflies get energy by feeding on nectar from flowers but many species don't feed at all. Help support the Grammarphobia Blog with your donation. And check out our books about the English language and more. Enter your email address to subscribe to the blog by email.

Email Address. If you are an old subscriber and not getting posts, please subscribe again. Close Menu Home. The Books. Woe Is I. Swan Song. Ok a better answer has been posted!

I think your answer is better. Short, sharp, peer-reviewed of a sort , definitive. I am not sure why people are voting up an question that is best answered by looking it up in a decent dictionary. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Display name Display name Would be interesting to find the earliest occurence of 'flutterby', too.

Note that NONE of your sources is really reputable. One is even a children's book. Please fix or this might be removed Oddthinking: Good edit. Is the wikipedia passage acceptable? Wikipedia has two sources for the claim. One moderator could delete my answer if s he thinks the wikipedia passage is not acceptable. I think we should remove it. Each of your references for the etymology of butterfly is secondary.

Why quote Wikipedia or the proceedings, when you could follow the provided references, and quote for example the OED directly? This answer is very interesting, because the modern Dutch word for butterfly is "vlinder", which has nothing to do with either butter or flying or poop anymore. Add a comment. With the OED pointing to Old English versions of butterfly , and Shakespeare using it several times, perhaps best known in King Lear Act 5 Scene 3 laugh at gilded butterflies this seems unlikely.

Community Bot 1. Henry Henry This does not seem to be sufficient evidence. It could very well be the case that the earlier usage was lost for some reason. March Ho: What you say is certainly possible for a few individual cases.