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Butterfly, a still.

Family XXVI, Animals

Plate 412

Butterfly

A butterfly is an insect with four large wings covered in tiny, overlapping scales, and the scales make its colors and patterns.

Playground

Family
Animals
Origin
Raised from a recipe
Habit
Diurnal: kept on the page
Voice
Yes, with the sound on
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play

Tap it to make it flutter faster. Hands-on: pick it up and let it flutter off.

Notes

Every butterfly starts life as a caterpillar, which sheds its skin to become a pupa, called a chrysalis, before emerging as a butterfly. Some colors, like the shining blue of the blue morpho, come from the shape of the scales, not from any paint-like color in them.

It flaps its wings slowly all the time. Tap it to flutter, beating its wings faster and wider for a moment. Pick a monarch, a blue morpho, a swallowtail or a rose butterfly in the Splash tab. With ✋ Hands-on on, pick it up and it flutters hard on your finger; let go and it flutters off and settles back to hovering near where you left it.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
FlutterTap
FlutterButton
WingsList4 choicesMonarch

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,999 at Low, and up to 999,999 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=butterfly<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="butterfly"></splashery-toy>

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