Most people recognize butterflies as some of the more tolerable creatures of the insect world.
Although few people like to group butterflies with such members as cockroaches and fleas, they are nonetheless in the same class. Butterflies and moths, however, are included in the order of insects known as Lepidoptera, which includes around 165,000 known species. Only about 20,000 of these are actually butterflies while the rest are moths. This makes sense, considering the fact that butterflies and moths, unlike other insects, have wings that are actually covered with little scales. This is understandable, since butterflies depend on flowering plants for food as both larvae and adults and serve as pollinators.