The Remarkable Way that Butterflies Mate

Did you know butterflies mate while facing away from each other?
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Butterflies have a remarkable method for mating. See how these incredible insects reproduce.

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[someoneyouknow]

Imagine living 2 lives, but in 2 totally different bodies, and being able to remember it!

[futureaests]

these shots are amazing. beautiful camera work :)

[Gods_Aviator]

They make it look so gentle and cute...

[nastasha]

I miss my childhood lol when butterflies are everywhere now they have gone after people stop growing flowers😥😥😥

[beverlyasleson]

This is amazing I released my butterfly and it wasn’t an hour later a male got her and was attached just like this video and flew off in the sunset together. How loon will does it take for her to lay eggs and die as with the male dying?

[nalesnikpolaczeq]

I love watching movies of this type, they show the beauty of nature, and amuse and educate 😍🦋 Greetings from Poland

[chummychimchim]

*Staying like that for hours sounds tiresome* 😦

[LNico]

Wait they just connect? Or mold together? 😮😨

[yassinyassin]

I noticed something all the butterflies mating ate idintical so do they have to be symitrical to mate???

[spacee_girrl]

anybody else here from that guy's tiktok

[drjabbingtoncrowe]

The narrator sounds like Paul Giamatti.

[stienven]

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[shailendramahajan]

HELLO sir can i use your videos for my ppt . on butterflies

[chrissylox]

OML, ,, this narrator also narrated A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick... it Bob Arctor

[SilentKGaming]

So that’s what’s going on in our butterfly cage. Guess it’s time to release them. Instructions said to keep them a week after they emerge from the chrysalis

[lils]

I just saw two butterfly’s mating in my garden,

[No_one]

I remember when I was a kid a woman step on a butterfly then I pick it up then I make it feel better and I let it go

[NotErine]

When i didnt watch the vid yet i was thinking to myself find a butterfly just staying there and get another butterfly MAKE THEIR FACES LOOK AT EACH OTHER this was a joke

[fluminesesoc]

They are both the same colors.Do they ever have sex with butterfly that are a different color or pattern to them?

[lizziechristiansenyoung]

Imagine those horni people who watch this so there mum and dad don’t find out...