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Do butterflies have brains?

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Yes, butterflies and all other insects have both a brain and a heart. The center of a butterfly's nervous system is the subesophageal ganglion and is located in the insect's thorax, not its head. The butterfly has a long chambered heart that runs the length of its body on the upper side. read more

Actually most of the parts (tissue) that we would call the brain in a caterpillar is broken down during metamorphosis and rebuilt in the adult butterfly. Remember we said most. The muscles are also broken down and rebuilt. This makes sense because of what you have probably observed – caterpillars crawl and butterflies walk and fly. read more

They have a cerebral ganglion situated in their head but the center of the nervous system is located in their thorax and it's called subesophageal ganglion. Further more, the brain is essential for the butterfly's behavior, monarch butterflies, for instance, use their brains to navigate during their migration from Northern America to Central Mexico. read more

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