Butterfly Coloring Pages
Welcome to my Butterfly coloring pages section!
A butterfly's wings are covered in thousands of tiny scales that overlap like roof shingles, and together they make every spot and stripe you see. When it isn't sipping nectar, its long tongue, called a proboscis, stays curled up like a party blower.
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Preschool and Simple Butterflies
Cartoon and Cute Butterflies
Detailed and Realistic Butterflies
Butterflies with Kids and Fairies
Butterflies in Scenes
Butterflies and Fruit
Fantasy and Fun
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
A chrysalis looks still and quiet, but inside it the caterpillar is being rebuilt from the inside out. Many butterflies come out after one or two weeks with their wings crumpled and damp, and they have to wait for them to stretch and dry before they can fly...
Species of Butterflies
A blue morpho's wings aren't really blue. Tiny scales bounce the light so that only blue reaches your eyes, and when the wings fold shut the butterfly flashes brown with eyespots instead...
Species of butterfly coloring pages
Butterflies and Flowers
Butterflies taste with their feet! When one lands on a flower, tiny sensors on its legs tell it if there's sweet nectar inside, and then it unrolls its long tongue to take a sip...
Butterflies and flowers coloring pages
Butterflies in Myth and Legend
The Greek word for butterfly was psyche, and it also meant soul. That's why the goddess Psyche has butterfly wings, and why people in Japan, China, Ireland and Mexico told stories about butterflies carrying spirits...
Butterfly myths and legends coloring pages