Anyone who touches the wings of butterfly or a moth finds that somethings like dust comes off on his fingers. The dust is actually made up of tiny scales. The scales grow in rows and give the wings their patterns of colors. The scales also account for the scientific name for butterflies and moths. Together they are called Lepidoptera, which means “scaly winged’.
They are about 112,000 different kinds of moths and butterflies in the world, and they live almost everywhere. In the United States and Canada there are probably about 700 kind of butterflies and 7,000 to 9,000 kinds of moths.
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