What is a Butterfly?

Butterflies are extremely beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have compound eyes, six jointed legs, a pair of antennae, 3 body parts, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest), and abdomen (the tail end). It;s body is covered by tiny hairs. Their six legs and four wings are attached to the thorax which contains the muscles for the lengs and wings.