Where do butterflies go when the weather is bad?

When the weather is too cold or damp butterflies hide under leaves or tuck themselves away in a clump of grass. Butterflies are "cold-blooded" and cannot generate their own body heat. They need to bask in the sun's rays until they are warm enough to fly.

Some butterflies can still fly in the rain provided it isn't too heavy and there temperature is warm enough for them to fly.

In the Welsh language one butterfly (called the ringlet in English) flies so often in the rain that it is known as "Iar Fach y Glaw" which means the "little hen of the rain" or "Rain butterfly"