where do butterflies sleep at night?

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and where do they go in the winter?

Answer 1

They mostly sleep in trees. The ones that live long enough will fly south for the winter (seriously). Check out the migrations of the Monarch butterfly.

Answer 2

Where do butterflies sleep?
To go to sleep, butterflies look for a safe place like the underside of a leaf or a branch, for example.
Most butterflies sleep alone, but there are also species sleeping in groups.
Poisonous butterflies have a particular smell that probably protects them better when they sleep together. It is also useful not to change the group’s sleeping place because a predator who attacked a poisonous butterfly one time won’t do this again. There is only a limited number of predators in an area so there is only a limited number to "educate" if the sleeping place stays the same.
One species from Costa Rica whose scientific name is Marpesia berania sleeps in groups on a leaf. If one butterfly of the group is disturbed, it opens its wings and touches its neighbors. Being touched, they open their wings as well and so the whole group is informed about the danger and can escape together.

Where do butterflies go in the winter?
Most butterflies of temperate regions such as North America and northern Europ spend the winter as eggs or pupae. Some, such as the red admiral, hibernate in the adult form. Others migrate southward to warmer areas.


Where will you find butterfly trees?
There is a type of conifer(pine tree) which grows in Mexico, California, and Florida that provides a yearly winter home for millions of monarch butterflies. The butterflies cling to these trees in such dense clusters that the trees appear to be dripping with butterflies. The butterflies rest here until the spring, and then begin their warm-weather migration back north.

Answer 3

Where Do Butterflies Sleep

Answer 4

At night butterflies go between rocks or other objects, hang from the undersides of leaves, crawl into crevices in the bark of trees.
They also do the same above to hybernate for the winter and even during droughts in the summer. Some butterflies have what is called sobitol and glycerol in their blood it functions as a natural anti-freeze agent for them

Answer 5

A butterfly is an insect of the Order Lepidoptera, and belongs to one of the superfamilies Hesperioidea (the skippers) or Papilionoidea (all other butterflies). Some authors would include also members of the superfamily Hedyloidea, the American butterfly moths. They are notable for their usual life cycle—proceeding from the larval stage as caterpillars through a pupic metamorphisis into their winged adult form. The patterns formed by their brightly coloured wings and their erratic-yet-graceful flight has made butterfly watching a popular hobby.Butterflies live primarily on nectar from flowers. Some also derive nourishment from pollen, tree sap, rotting fruit, dung, and dissolved minerals in wet sand or dirt. Butterflies play an important ecological role as pollinators.


Antennae shape in the lepidoptera from C. T. Bingham (1905)As adults, butterflies are able to consume liquids only by means of their proboscis. They regularly feed on nectar and sip water from damp patches. This they do for water, for energy from sugars in nectar and for sodium and other minerals which are vital for their reproduction.

Several species of butterflies need more sodium than provided by the nectar they drink from flowers. As such, they are attracted to the sodium in salt (which the males often give to the females to ensure fertility). As human sweat contains significant quantities of salt, they sometimes land on people.

Besides damp patches, some butterflies also visit dung, rotting fruit or carcasses to obtain the essential minerals that they need.

Butterflies sense the air for scents, wind and nectar using their antennae. The antennae come in various shapes and colours. The hesperids have a pointed angle or hook to the antennae.

Some butterflies, such as the Monarch butterfly, are migratory.

Answer 6

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What a lovely question. Not sure if I have an answer but I have seen little twig-like things on a stem that turned out to be butterflies. I guess that they might have been sleeping as they were folded up so slim Used to camp & hike a lot..

Answer 7

butterflies of the same type wil join together in a pod like arrangement and sleep within the confines of a plant or shrub. they perfer to congregate in a plant or shrub that support them by either nectar or larvae food/.

See the website of the U of Fla Butterfly exhibit or the Callaway Gardens site as both contain photos of sleeping butterflies.

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Some migrate to warmer climates see Monarch
Some hibernate
Some lay their eggs and then die

Answer 8

Butterflies sleep under the leaves of trees and under the petals of flowers.Sometime they sleep under the twigs with their wings closed. During winter probably they also stay in safe places where they can be kept warm. Anyway there are places where there is no winter season so butterflies there seems so lively and happy.

Answer 9

there are many types of butterfly they sleep inside flowers,some slle on leaves ,other used to sleep on any smooth surface and in winter most butterfly migrates and there are some butterflys who can handle winter season..

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Answer 10

Butterflies don't sleep although they will be unable to fly if the temperature drops too low. Their lives are not that long after they emerge from the cocoon and they spend it mating, laying eggs and migrating to other areas. Many of them do not eat after emerging. Eating is what they do from the time they emerge until it is time to build a lazy cocoon for sleep. After that it is total living and much of that is in the air.