This means that if 100 eggs were laid by a female, one might expect only 2 individuals to survive long enough to become reproductive and produce offspring themselves. Moth Sharing the order Lepidoptera with butterflies, moths have many characteristics that are similar to butterflies. However, there are a few distinct differences that separate them. The diet of an adult butterfly is strictly liquids. While the types of liquids that butterflies use as food varies significantly, nectar is a very common source of food that is rich in sugar and therefore rich is energy.
Nectar plants are plants which flower abundantly and provide rich sources of food for the adults.
These are thought to act as defense mechanisms in various ways. Butterflies use their antennae for this purpose. The eyes of adult butterflies are made up of thousands of smaller hexagonal structures known as ommatidia, giving the butterfly very limited and segmented vision. These are structures usually found in pairs on the head of the larvae. Sometimes these strucutres are visible and always present, while others are only protruded in the event of the larva defending itself.