Butterfly Basics: If you touch a butterfly's wings will it die? Butterfly Ridge Beating the Heat in the Living Wings of Butterflies Columbia Engineering Watching a butterfly's wings vibrate in slow motion provides an amazing opportunity to stop, look and breath as nature's canvas provides its own live mosaic. It's a moment to appreciate the visual Why do monarch butterflies shiver? They do this to increase their body temperature by warming their muscles so they can take flight., Photo Courtesy of Community Member Julie Bthanks Julie!