They are bad omen…..so not really excited or anticipating seeing one

School kids might have idea tho...
They are found in bushy area, relatively

I see them everyday in my house
Brightly coloured wings and an insect that flies elegantly.The trees and plants in my garden seems to attract them all the time. If you have flowering plants and trees, they will visit regularly and you also help in increasing their population. Nature is wonderful, let's appreciate it

Omicron007:


Butterflies are naturally responsible for increasing the biodiversity of an ecosystem. An environment that appeals to and attracts butterflies would also be fertile for the growth of plants and serve as a suitable habitat for other animals.

this is very true. they are drawn to peaceful and unspoiled environments. d insanity in d world today is scaring them away

Christ was a naturalist at best so once he said consider the lilies of the field. They neither toil nor spin but yet Solomon in all of his glories was not array like anyone of them. He was at one with nature.

If one gaze hard into the natural things the spiritual things will come natural.


No spiritual or scientific studies is made perfect without the natural. This things are beautiful and they abound all around us. If
one can take their mind from the push and draws of the life one will see them.

Vinnie2000:

Only those People closer to nature can say they have seen one recently..I.e.Farmers, Villagers,etc..

Overrated Slum, Potopoto republic, Brown roof City dwellers etc.. can NOT say they have..

just had to find a way to pollute this thread with your ethnic bigotry. You need help!

Made a video of this Christmas butterfly some 6 hours ago

Adakintroy:
Christ was a naturalist at best so once he said consider the lilies of the field. They neither toil nor spin but yet Solomon in all of his glories was not array like anyone of them. He was at one with nature.

If one gaze hard into the natural things the spiritual things will come natural.

No spiritual or scientific studies is made perfect without the natural. This things are beautiful and they abound all around us. If
one can take their mind from the push and draws of the life one will see them.

i like this outlook

InTheCloudySky:
I love butterflies. I saw two or three this week actually.

Are you sure it’s not moth you saw.. just saying

Omicron007:
To be honest, I dislike insects a lot but the butterfly stands out for me.

From the visibly crafted patterns to the brightly coloured wings and the fluttering flights, the insect is a beauty to behold.

Growing up in the beautiful neighbourhood of Rayfield, Jos, I easily remember how me and my estate neighbours used to play with different species of the beloved insect on the beautiful green lawn.

However, from reasons ranging from deforestation to climate change and others, butterflies are fast becoming scarce and rare to find these days.

For a little scientific/biological background: There are more than 28,000 species of butterflies throughout the world.
These insects live and breed in diverse habitats such as the mangroves, salt marshes, lowland forested areas, wetlands, mountain zones, and in grasslands.

Butterflies tend to be habitat-specific meaning that some of the species will only be found in specific places such as only in the coastal areas or only in the mountain zones. The major role of butterflies in the ecosystem is that of pollination.

Butterflies are also called the wild indicators of an ecosystem. The reason for this is that they can provide a picture regarding the health of an ecosystem at any particular time.

Butterflies are naturally responsible for increasing the biodiversity of an ecosystem. An environment that appeals to and attracts butterflies would also be fertile for the growth of plants and serve as a suitable habitat for other animals.
Among the animals that are attracted to habitats belonging to butterflies are other invertebrates.

When was the last time you saw a butterfly?

See them in badagry,around my late step mother's house.....

Let's skip the butterfly and answer this pertinent question.

When last did you see an average Nigeria use Butter on bread in this Buhari Regime?

FreeSpirited:
Truth is butterfly is no more common, at least for me, it's being a while I saw them. I don't care anyway.
The question is, what's are the importance or essence of having butterfly around? Do they affect us or our environment in any way? What is their contribution that should necessitate their conservation?

Conservationist should educate us. To me, all these animals have life-cycle and they can't be on Earth forever. No amount of conservation policy will change that..
And what if by conservation we are even disrupting the natural plan and system that set limit to the existential cycle of certain animals and organism? Even human spp have evolved and disappeared at some point. Do we blame evolution or nature?
.
So, I want to put it to conservationist who say we should conserve this and that...imagine all animal spp never went on extinct, won't the world be overpopulated with animals today?
.
Imagine Dinosaurs were still around and no spp of dinosaur, snake, lion, whale is gone...how will the world cope with such volumnous density of dangerous spp of animals?
.
If u say human is the cause of disappearance of animals today? well, animals did disappear at some point, at least before earliest human civilization dinosaurs and thousands of animal spp already gone extinct, so who do u blame for that? Natural disasters?
Then since it can't be stopped, it must be part of natural cycle as well as human civilization which is blamed for decimating certain spp of organisms..About animal conservation, I feel there's so much needless noise and fuss about it.
Though we can document, keep the gene and specimen of certain animals for reserch and posterity, this doesn't require so much noise and fund as being wasted on conservation today.
Many developed country choose to conserve certain animal and leave others cos obviously they can't conserve all spp of animals..so what criteria are they employing in making this choice.?
Conservationist should address all those points and convince us why we should keep promoting conservation for a kind of animals while living others to perish

You talk to much hope ur girl no dey complain , alakowe

FreeSpirited:
Truth is butterfly is no more common, at least for me, it's being a while I saw them. I don't care anyway.
The question is, what's are the importance or essence of having butterfly around? Do they affect us or our environment in any way? What is their contribution that should necessitate their conservation?

Conservationist should educate us. To me, all these animals have life-cycle and they can't be on Earth forever. No amount of conservation policy will change that..
And what if by conservation we are even disrupting the natural plan and system that set limit to the existential cycle of certain animals and organism? Even human spp have evolved and disappeared at some point. Do we blame evolution or nature?
.
So, I want to put it to conservationist who say we should conserve this and that...imagine all animal spp never went on extinct, won't the world be overpopulated with animals today?
.
Imagine Dinosaurs were still around and no spp of dinosaur, snake, lion, whale is gone...how will the world cope with such volumnous density of dangerous spp of animals?
.
If u say human is the cause of disappearance of animals today? well, animals did disappear at some point, at least before earliest human civilization dinosaurs and thousands of animal spp already gone extinct, so who do u blame for that? Natural disasters?
Then since it can't be stopped, it must be part of natural cycle as well as human civilization which is blamed for decimating certain spp of organisms..About animal conservation, I feel there's so much needless noise and fuss about it.
Though we can document, keep the gene and specimen of certain animals for reserch and posterity, this doesn't require so much noise and fund as being wasted on conservation today.
Many developed country choose to conserve certain animal and leave others cos obviously they can't conserve all spp of animals..so what criteria are they employing in making this choice.?
Conservationist should address all those points and convince us why we should keep promoting conservation for a kind of animals while living others to perish

they are very important to us, at least they speed up the rate of pollination in our crops



.

There is one reason alone, Deforestation. Even soldier ants and their iconic battalions have faded into history.

It's been a while.

whippersnapper:
please someone should explain the difference between a moth and a butterfly

A moth has a dull colour
A moth has feathery antenna and legs
A moth is always attracted to artificial light ( It's nocturnal)
A moth wings flatten when it's resting on a surface.


A butterfly is brightly coloured
A butterfly has thin antennas
Mostly diurnal ( Active in the day)
Its wings are vertical (Standing up) when it's resting.

adajid209:
OP make I no lie you almost 5 years back. Butterfly them don japa from 9ja

Dem no japa anything. Dry season is coming and you'd soon be tired of seeing them perch on flowers to feed on their pollen

Omicron007:
To be honest, I dislike insects a lot but the butterfly stands out for me.

From the visibly crafted patterns to the brightly coloured wings and the fluttering flights, the insect is a beauty to behold.

Growing up in the beautiful neighbourhood of Rayfield, Jos, I easily remember how me and my estate neighbours used to play with different species of the beloved insect on the beautiful green lawn.

However, from reasons ranging from deforestation to climate change and others, butterflies are fast becoming scarce and rare to find these days.

For a little scientific/biological background: There are more than 28,000 species of butterflies throughout the world.
These insects live and breed in diverse habitats such as the mangroves, salt marshes, lowland forested areas, wetlands, mountain zones, and in grasslands.

Butterflies tend to be habitat-specific meaning that some of the species will only be found in specific places such as only in the coastal areas or only in the mountain zones. The major role of butterflies in the ecosystem is that of pollination.

Butterflies are also called the wild indicators of an ecosystem. The reason for this is that they can provide a picture regarding the health of an ecosystem at any particular time.

Butterflies are naturally responsible for increasing the biodiversity of an ecosystem. An environment that appeals to and attracts butterflies would also be fertile for the growth of plants and serve as a suitable habitat for other animals.
Among the animals that are attracted to habitats belonging to butterflies are other invertebrates.

When was the last time you saw a butterfly?

On natgeo wild

Truelly a while.

Eriokanmi:
Dem no japa anything. Dry season is coming and you'd soon be tired of seeing them perch on flowers to feed on their pollen

Be calming down bro, some one can not play with you?

adajid209:
Be calming down bro, some one can not play with you?

I saw last in November 2020. Do moths also count?

I think it's majorly to the use of insecticides these days and we spray our weeds too. People no longer use hoe and cutlass in cutting grass

Omicron007:
To be honest, I dislike insects a lot but the butterfly stands out for me.

From the visibly crafted patterns to the brightly coloured wings and the fluttering flights, the insect is a beauty to behold.

Growing up in the beautiful neighbourhood of Rayfield, Jos, I easily remember how me and my estate neighbours used to play with different species of the beloved insect on the beautiful green lawn.

However, from reasons ranging from deforestation to climate change and others, butterflies are fast becoming scarce and rare to find these days.

For a little scientific/biological background: There are more than 28,000 species of butterflies throughout the world.
These insects live and breed in diverse habitats such as the mangroves, salt marshes, lowland forested areas, wetlands, mountain zones, and in grasslands.

Butterflies tend to be habitat-specific meaning that some of the species will only be found in specific places such as only in the coastal areas or only in the mountain zones. The major role of butterflies in the ecosystem is that of pollination.

Butterflies are also called the wild indicators of an ecosystem. The reason for this is that they can provide a picture regarding the health of an ecosystem at any particular time.

Butterflies are naturally responsible for increasing the biodiversity of an ecosystem. An environment that appeals to and attracts butterflies would also be fertile for the growth of plants and serve as a suitable habitat for other animals.
Among the animals that are attracted to habitats belonging to butterflies are other invertebrates.

When was the last time you saw a butterfly?

About 3 weeks ago but it was just 1 or 2.

Yesterday... during pollination process in our garden. But immediately it saw me coming, it flew away.

A friend(of blessed memory) once told me that if I see a butterfly on my way to a place or somewhere it means I would meet someone I know on the way. Ever since then ve always confirm it to be true..an ishan man from Edo's state.

Nice one. At least this one is better than such useless posts, like "See the snake I killed in my compound this morning."

I saw a butterfly today. OP you forgot to add that with high usage of pesticides most especially the banned one's which are still easily found third world countries, it effects could result to low number of butterflies and bees as it kills dem.

J Town Boy

That's true o, it's been long I saw one except on TV

Ómör eh, I don't know my link with butterflies o, I see them everywhere I go even in my room they come in mysteriously, these evening one rested on my shoulder, I picked it up and told her how beautiful she is and set it free...

Hmmmm... it's been quite a long time. They've all left Lagos and other urban centres due to our destructive attitude to nature. Unfortunately, a barren nature is a miserable human life.

Theirs thread makes sense.