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Butterflies are more than just colorful garden visitors, they’re vital contributors to healthy ecosystems. As pollinators, they help plants reproduce by carrying pollen from flower to flower. While bees often get the spotlight, butterflies also play a crucial role in maintaining plant diversity, supporting food chains, and ensuring thriving habitats for other wildlife.

They’re also environmental indicators. Because butterflies are highly sensitive to climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction, their presence, or absence, tells scientists a lot about ecosystem health. Protecting butterflies means protecting countless other species that share their habitat.

This feature in World-Wide Q&A highlights the butterfly’s elegance and ecological impact. Found on every continent except Antarctica, these winged wonders remind us that even delicate creatures can play mighty roles in nature’s balance.

Araya Tomson Changed status to publish June 23, 2025