The myth about butterflies that they die when are touched turns out to be false . Instead the interesting fact is, if you touch a butterfly it will lose rarely enough scales to stop it from flying . Other fun facts about butterflies: 1- The longest flight recorded by a migrating monarch butterfly was 2,750 miles . 2- Only in Nepal ,butterflies live and flies at an altitude of nearly 15,000 feet . 3-Researchers recorded through high speed cameras that the butterflies flap their wings approximately 5-20 times every second .