Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths and moths), whose fossil remains are known since the Jurassic period, are currently one of the richest in the insect orders - there are more than 158000 species in the detachment. And immediately a question. Why so many different Lepidoptera. What is their purpose?
The role of butterflies in natural ecosystems is that, being first-order consumers, they are inalienable participants of food chains. Larvae and pupae are links in the diet of birds and parasitic insect entomophages. Butterflies also act as pollinators of many species of flowering plants.
As can be seen, the main goal for a butterfly is to be food for another species of living organisms.
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