How Does Rain Effect Butterflies?

As you can imagine rain is a potential killer for a butterfly, surely they have evolved some process of survival when they’re flying around and a thunder storm rolls in, indeed they have. A raindrop to a butterfly is the equivelent of a person being hit by a waterballoon with twice the mass of a bowling ball, interesting stuff.

Monarch Butterfly

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