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Have you ever stopped to think about where we’d be without the amazing technological advances?  Isn’t it incredible to think how far we’ve come just in the last 10 to 15 years? It may seem like a lifetime ago, that we didn’t have this thing called the Internet. But even the Internet hasn’t been around that long.  Remember when a cell phone was a car phone and it had a cord attach?  I remember getting my first car phone back in 1990 and thinking I was one cool dude because I had a ”car phone.”  Not long after that, people started walking around with cell phones.  Now we use our cell phones for everything including mobile Internet access.  When I think about how technology has changed my life, I am astounded.  To think what the next 10 to 15 years will bring is simply unimaginable.  However, it sure is fun thinking about the possibilities. Technology has a way of making our lives more convenient and if we are honest, a little more lazy.

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Here are some strange butterfly facts:

Butterflies have a head the size of a small  1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 cm.
Butterflies see only red, green and yellow.
Some people say that if the black bars on the Caterpillar Woolybear are large, a cold winter is nearing.
Monarch butterflies journey from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, at a distance of about 2,000 miles, and back to the north again in spring.
Butterflies can not fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
Representations of butterflies are in Egyptian frescoes at Thebes, the 3500 years old.
Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera have been found.
There are about 24,000 species of butterflies. The moths are many: over 140,000 species of them were counted all over the world. 
Some cases Moth caterpillars (Psychidae) a case to themselves that they always carry with them. It is made of silk and parts of plants or soil.
The caterpillars of some muzzle Moths (Pyralididae) live in or on the water plants.
The females of some moth species lack wings, all she can do to move is crawl.
The Morgan Sphinx Moth from Madagascar has a proboscis (tube mouth), the 12-14 cm long, to the nectar from the bottom of a 12-inch deep orchid discovered by Charles Darwin.
Some moths never eat anything as adults because they do not have mouths. You must live on the energy they use as a caterpillar.
Many species of butterflies can be with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit, is good to lay eggs for their caterpillars’ food or not.
There are several species of insects in a tropical rainforest tree, as it is in the entire state of Vermont.
People eat insects - called “Entomophagy (people eating bugs) - It has been practiced for centuries across Africa, Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Americas. Why? Because many bugs are also protein-rich and good sources of vitamins, minerals and fats.
You can eat bugs! Try the “Eat-A-Bug Cookbook by David George Gordon, 10 Speed Press. Do not want them to cook? Go to HotLix for all types of insects Goodies! My favorites are “lickit’s cricket” - a Sucker related with a real edible cricket inside.
There are more than one million described species of insects. Some experts estimate there are actually 15 to 30 million species.
Most insects are beneficial to humans because they eat other insects that pollinate crops, are food for other animals, the products that we use (such as honey and silk), or medical applications.
Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of her body, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don’t dry out.

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