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Yellow Coaster
Acraea issoria
27.8307, 83.5394
Field Notes
Description:
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult.
Habitat:
Butterflies feed primarily on nectar from flowers. Some also derive nourishment from pollen,[23] tree sap, rotting fruit, dung, decaying flesh, and dissolved minerals in wet sand or dirt. Butterflies are important as pollinators for some species of plants although in general they do not carry as much pollen load as bees. They are however capable of moving pollen over greater distances.[24] Flower constancy has been observed for at least one species of butterfly.
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