49 Sentences About Butterflies: Make Your English Fly!

In this article we will practice 49 sentences about butterflies to boost our English vocabulary and grammar usage.

Let’s find out all about butterflies today, with the aim of boosting our English vocabulary and improving our grammar. We will answer many questions today such as: What do butterflies eat? Do butterflies sleep? We will also try an English quiz at the end to practice making correct English sentences.

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What do butterflies eat? 

They are such small creatures, so it is perhaps no surprise that they don’t eat solids. Butterflies are limited to a liquid diet, and consume nectar from flowers.

Butterflies drink nectar to sustain themselves.

Sentences about butterflies: Do butterflies sleep?

Whenever you see a butterfly, it looks awake, doesn’t it? So it is natural that we might ask: do butterflies actually sleep? While they don’t sleep in the sense that humans do (deeply) they do enter a quiescent state that is kind of like sleeping. They go and hide in leafy or camouflaged areas, and they enter a period of dormancy. 

How many species of butterflies are there?

How many different colors of butterflies have you seen where you live? I often see the same yellow types, so I wondered once: How many species of butterflies are there? There are about 17500 species of butterfly in the world! Wow! Which one is your favorite? One of the better-known types of butterfly is the “Monarch butterfly”. Unfortunately, it looks like their population is in severe decline. 

5 simple sentences about the butterfly

For the first of our sentences about the butterfly, we will look at some simple sentences.

1. The butterfly has wings.
2. The butterfly has legs.
3. It drinks nectar.
4. Butterflies are pretty.
5. Butterflies are light.

5 advanced sentences about the butterfly

Now we will look at more advanced sentences about butterflies.

1. Although it looks like two, butterflies actually have four wings.
2. My friend didn’t know this, but the butterflies have six legs. This is because they are insects.
3. Butterflies can’t eat solids, so they have a liquid diet consisting of nectar from flowers.
4. I think butterflies are wonderfully colorful and look marvelous.
5. Butterflies are so light that they flit and flutter across the garden all day long.

Easy sentences about butterflies: A few lines on butterfly for kids

Here we have a few lines on butterfly with simple sentence structures for children to learn. Also, these are very suitable for beginner English students of any age!

1. This butterfly is white and pink.
2. The monarch butterfly is orange.
3. Those butterflies are pretty!

A few lines on the butterfly with prepositions

To continue all sentences about butterflies, we will now look at using English prepositions. The prepositions we will use today include on, over, and during.

1. The butterfly landed gently on my hand.
2. There are a few butterflies over there in the flower bed.
3. During the summer there are many butterflies in my garden.

A few lines on the butterfly with the present simple

Here are some sentences about butterflies using the present simple tense. One reason we talk about things in the present simple is to indicate routine.

1. What do butterflies eat?
2. They consume a liquid diet of nectar.
3. Do butterflies sleep?
4. Not exactly. They rest in a quiescent state.
5. How many species of butterflies are there? 
6. In the world, that are about 17500 species of butterfly.

A few lines on the butterfly with the present continuous

Now we will talk about our favorite insect using present continuous tense. This is used to indicate an ongoing action. We form it using ~ing.

1. That butterfly is resting on the flower.
2. Those butterflies are flying through the garden.
3. Those butterflies are drinking nectar from the flowers.

A few lines on butterfly with the past perfect

Now we will look at a few lines on butterfly using the past perfect tense. Why would we use the past perfect? It is useful to describe the passage of time in the past. For example:  I had worked there for two years.

1. Many butterflies had lived in my garden.
2. Unfortunately, I had gone to work by the time all the butterflies flew around the garden.
3. We had tried to encourage butterflies to live in our garden, but it didn’t work.

A few lines on butterfly with the past continuous

The past continuous talks about an ongoing process in the past. We form the past continuous using a past verb and ~ing. Here are a few sentences about butterflies using this structure.

1. The Monarch butterflies were living in my garden in California.
2. The butterflies were flying around my garden often.
3. The butterflies were drinking nectar from the flowers.

A few lines on butterfly with past tense

We use the simple past tense to talk about a completed action in the past. We form it with an ED ending verb, if it is a regular verb. Here are a few lines on butterfly in the past tense:

1. The gorgeous butterfly flew onto my hand.
2. Those butterflies lived in my garden.
3. I looked at the butterflies with wonder.

English quiz: Sentences about butterflies

Now we will try a short English quiz in order to make some correct sentences about butterflies. When looking at these questions, try to answer by yourself first, before reading the answers. 

• How many species of butterflies are there?
• There are roughly 17,500 species of butterfly in the world.
• What do butterflies eat?
• While they don’t eat food per se, butterflies drink nectar.
• Do butterflies sleep?
• Not exactly. It is different from humans – it’s more like resting. It’s called a quiescent state.
• Are butterflies colorful?
• Yes, they certainly are.
• How many legs do butterflies have?
• Butterflies have six legs.
• How many wings do butterflies have?
• Butterflies have four wings.
• Are butterflies birds?
• No they aren’t, they are insects. They can fly, but they aren’t birds.

Sentences about butterflies to improve your English

Today we have looked at 49 sentences about butterflies. We’ve also discussed the answers to questions such as: Where do butterflies eat? Do butterflies sleep? How many species of butterflies are there? If you’re not sure about the answers to any of these, please scroll up through the article to find those answers. We’ve also done an English quiz about the butterfly. I hope you have learned some new English expressions today!