Yellow Butterfly. Great Basin Fritillary Speyeria Eglis On Pink Flower Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Closeup of butterfly on garden leaf. Location: butterfly exhibit at the Seattle Center Science Museum. Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax the chest, and abdomen the tail end. The butterfly`s body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.