Beautiful Butterfly

Butterflies are winged insects from the Lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera. They are nectar-feeding, with two pairs of large, often brightly coloured wings that are covered with microscopic scales. They have a conspicuous, fluttering flight and often fold their wings together when at rest.
Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off.