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Show Frozen Butterflies Can Live. It is a common experience among mountain climbers to find butterflies lying frozen on the snow, and so brittle brit-tle that they break unless they are very carefully handled. Such frozen butterflies on being taken to a warmer climate recover themselves and fly away. Some insects which habitually hibernate, as larvae or pupae, do not suffer from being frozen, even for a lengthened period; but what is known as an open winter, with its alternations alterna-tions of wet, warmth and cold, is far more fatal to them. Six species of butterflies but-terflies have been found within a few hundred miles of the north pole. j |