Thursdayspecial- A Butterfly Painting

Hello Hivians

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you .....Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Today I messed around again with my colours and it birth a butterfly. As i studied a couple of butterflies images in my gallery, I realized that majority if not all of them have the same designs and colours on both wings.

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If the butterfly is patterned, then its even harder to get the exact designs on the same sides by hand. I still went ahead to try my hands on it.

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Finally I outlined it and tweaked it a bit with photo editor.

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So I got some fun facts about butterflies

• Butterflies don’t taste with taste buds, but rather sensors located under their feet.
• A group of butterflies is known as a flutter.
• Butterflies can see beyond the ultraviolet spectrum and their eyes consist of a network of 6000 lenses.

• The Common Buckeye Butterfly is considered as one of the most striking species of butterflies with its wide upper wing bars and big, multicolored eyespots.
• The Giant Swallowtail Butterfly is one of the biggest butterfly species on the planet, with wings spanning from 4 to 7 inches.
• The adult butterfly only lives 3 to 4 weeks in average.
• Some butterflies can be very picky about where they lay their eggs. As a matter of fact, some butterflies will only lay their eggs in one type of plant.
• The first thing a caterpillar eats after it hatches from its cocoon is usually the shell of the cocoon itself.

^{Source of the fun facts}

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**Staysafe/Stayhome **

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Drop a comment or two, I want to know what you think about this work.

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First posted here