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Sunday, March 27, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
GLASSWINGED BUTTERFLY
Facts about Glasswinged Butterfly,
"Scientific name for Glasswinged Butterfly is Greta Oto". The Glasswinged Butterfly is a variety of brush-footed butterfly that belongs to the Greta genus of the Nymphalidae family. The Glasswinged Butterfly range is from Mexico in the course of Colombia and Panama, and they fly through Florida, too. The Glasswinged Butterfly is mostly renowned for its transparent wings. The Glasswinged Butterfly is one among the most stunning butterflies on the earth due to their vivid coloration or unique form. Even though most other varieties of butterflies protect against their predators by means of their colored scales that outline their wings, the Glasswinged Butterfly evolves transparent wings to conceal itself from its killers rather than to discourage them.
Features
The Glasswinged Butterfly has transparent wings, with a maximum wingspan, ranging from 2 1/8 inches to 2 1/4 inches (5.5 to 6.0cm). The tissue amid the veins of the wings of the Glasswinged Butterfly resembles glass, as it is short of the dyed scales found common among other butterfly varieties. These lucid wings make the Glasswinged Butterfly very difficult for voracious birds follow it during the flight. The dense borders of the Glasswinged Butterfly wings are dark brown in color, sometimes colored with orange or red, and they have a dark body color. The adult Glasswinged butterflies exhibit many interesting behaviors, such as extensive migrations and lekking (take part in a communal breeding display on a lek: among male butterflies.
The Glasswinged Butterfly has no scales, and there are just transparent membranes, which signifies that the wings can be looked directly through them. When the membranes of the Glasswinged Butterfly are positioned in the correct way, they will refract (of water, air, or glass that makes a ray of light will change direction when it enters at an angle) light such that unbelievable, wonderful colors are revealed in the wings of the butterfly. It will be similar to an apparent soap fizz, capturing the light and revealing its immense collection of colors within. However, when the Glasswinged Butterfly are in flight, it is impossible to spot them because their wings are basically lucid.
In spite of the look of delicate wings, the Glasswinged Butterfly is amazingly strong and enables the glass wings to continue extensive traveling flights, whereby they tour to a maximum distance of 12 miles (19.3km) per day. Interestingly, to locate a mate, male Glasswinged Butterfly assemble together in the shaded crooks of the rainforest understory, their primary home, and emit pheromones to magnetize female butterflies in competitive surroundings.
Diet
The Glasswinged Butterfly visits ordinary flowers, such as Lantana and drinks the nectar of the flowers of the plant. The caterpillars of the Glasswinged Butterfly feed on some toxic plants.
Breeding
Though both male and female Glasswinged butterflies visit a variety of plants for drinking of nectar of their flowers, the female Glasswinged Butterfly prefers to lay her eggs on the tropical plants that belong to the Solanaceae genus Cestrum. The green caterpillars of the Glasswinged Butterfly have a green color body and eat these poisonous plants and are maybe poisonous to their predators in the course of secondary chemicals accumulated in their tissues. Usually, the chemical extracts of a caterpillar are inedible to ants. Adult Glasswinged Butterfly are also considered toxic, but their toxicity effects chiefly from the male butterflies consuming on flowers, such as Asteraceae whose nectar includes pyrrolizidine alkaloids. These similar alkaloids are transformed into pheromones, too, by the male Glasswinged Butterfly and used to magnetize female butterflies. Groups of male butterflies flutter around, dispersing pheromones so as to assist them to mate with a female butterfly, a performance called lekking.
"Scientific name for butterfly Lepidoptera". Glasswinged Butterfly are insects. A Glasswinged Butterfly is a herbivore; Meaning that as a caterpillar its first food is its own eggshell and than it will eat the leaves of the plant on which it is hatched. When it becomes a butterfly, it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw.
Life cycle of a Glasswinged Butterfly comes in four stages, egg, larva "caterpillars", pupa "chrysalis" and adult Butterfly.
A Glasswinged Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue.
When caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look
An adult Glasswinged Butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.
Glasswinged Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. An adult butterfly average life span is from a week to a year
The top flight speed of a Glasswinged Butterfly is 12 miles per hour and some moths can fly up to 25 miles per hour.
A Glasswinged Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah (28 cel). Glasswinged Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.
A Glasswinged Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting
The estimate is between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
A Glasswinged Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts – the head, abdomen and thorax. A Glasswinged Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".
A Glasswinged Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Glasswinged Butterfly’s mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up.
"Scientific name for Glasswinged Butterfly is Greta Oto". The Glasswinged Butterfly is a variety of brush-footed butterfly that belongs to the Greta genus of the Nymphalidae family. The Glasswinged Butterfly range is from Mexico in the course of Colombia and Panama, and they fly through Florida, too. The Glasswinged Butterfly is mostly renowned for its transparent wings. The Glasswinged Butterfly is one among the most stunning butterflies on the earth due to their vivid coloration or unique form. Even though most other varieties of butterflies protect against their predators by means of their colored scales that outline their wings, the Glasswinged Butterfly evolves transparent wings to conceal itself from its killers rather than to discourage them.
Features
The Glasswinged Butterfly has transparent wings, with a maximum wingspan, ranging from 2 1/8 inches to 2 1/4 inches (5.5 to 6.0cm). The tissue amid the veins of the wings of the Glasswinged Butterfly resembles glass, as it is short of the dyed scales found common among other butterfly varieties. These lucid wings make the Glasswinged Butterfly very difficult for voracious birds follow it during the flight. The dense borders of the Glasswinged Butterfly wings are dark brown in color, sometimes colored with orange or red, and they have a dark body color. The adult Glasswinged butterflies exhibit many interesting behaviors, such as extensive migrations and lekking (take part in a communal breeding display on a lek: among male butterflies.
The Glasswinged Butterfly has no scales, and there are just transparent membranes, which signifies that the wings can be looked directly through them. When the membranes of the Glasswinged Butterfly are positioned in the correct way, they will refract (of water, air, or glass that makes a ray of light will change direction when it enters at an angle) light such that unbelievable, wonderful colors are revealed in the wings of the butterfly. It will be similar to an apparent soap fizz, capturing the light and revealing its immense collection of colors within. However, when the Glasswinged Butterfly are in flight, it is impossible to spot them because their wings are basically lucid.
In spite of the look of delicate wings, the Glasswinged Butterfly is amazingly strong and enables the glass wings to continue extensive traveling flights, whereby they tour to a maximum distance of 12 miles (19.3km) per day. Interestingly, to locate a mate, male Glasswinged Butterfly assemble together in the shaded crooks of the rainforest understory, their primary home, and emit pheromones to magnetize female butterflies in competitive surroundings.
Diet
The Glasswinged Butterfly visits ordinary flowers, such as Lantana and drinks the nectar of the flowers of the plant. The caterpillars of the Glasswinged Butterfly feed on some toxic plants.
Breeding
Though both male and female Glasswinged butterflies visit a variety of plants for drinking of nectar of their flowers, the female Glasswinged Butterfly prefers to lay her eggs on the tropical plants that belong to the Solanaceae genus Cestrum. The green caterpillars of the Glasswinged Butterfly have a green color body and eat these poisonous plants and are maybe poisonous to their predators in the course of secondary chemicals accumulated in their tissues. Usually, the chemical extracts of a caterpillar are inedible to ants. Adult Glasswinged Butterfly are also considered toxic, but their toxicity effects chiefly from the male butterflies consuming on flowers, such as Asteraceae whose nectar includes pyrrolizidine alkaloids. These similar alkaloids are transformed into pheromones, too, by the male Glasswinged Butterfly and used to magnetize female butterflies. Groups of male butterflies flutter around, dispersing pheromones so as to assist them to mate with a female butterfly, a performance called lekking.
"Scientific name for butterfly Lepidoptera". Glasswinged Butterfly are insects. A Glasswinged Butterfly is a herbivore; Meaning that as a caterpillar its first food is its own eggshell and than it will eat the leaves of the plant on which it is hatched. When it becomes a butterfly, it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw.
Life cycle of a Glasswinged Butterfly comes in four stages, egg, larva "caterpillars", pupa "chrysalis" and adult Butterfly.
A Glasswinged Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue.
When caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look
An adult Glasswinged Butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.
Glasswinged Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. An adult butterfly average life span is from a week to a year
The top flight speed of a Glasswinged Butterfly is 12 miles per hour and some moths can fly up to 25 miles per hour.
A Glasswinged Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah (28 cel). Glasswinged Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.
A Glasswinged Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting
The estimate is between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
A Glasswinged Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts – the head, abdomen and thorax. A Glasswinged Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".
A Glasswinged Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Glasswinged Butterfly’s mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up.
A
Glasswinged Butterfly has three pairs of legs and their feet have
little claws that help them stand on flowers. The Glasswinged
Butterfly's wings are made up of hard tubes that are covered with a thin
tissue. The butterfly's wings are covered with fine dusty like scales. A
Glasswinged Butterfly has four brightly colored wings having
distinctive patterns made up of tiny scales. The bright patterns scales
sometimes have hidden ultraviolet patterns for attracting mates. The
bright colors are also used as camouflage to hide them or scare off
predictors.
BLUE MORPHO
Blue Morpho Butterfly Facts, Scientific name Blue Morpho Butterfly is
Morpho menelaus. A Blue Morpho Butterfly is a herbivore, Meaning that
as a caterpillar its first food is its own eggshell and than it will eat
the leaves of the plant on which it is hatched. When it becomes a
butterfly, it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and
water with a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks
like a straw. All in Butterflys in the same family (Menelaus Blue
Morpho) Morpho peleides (Peleides Blue Morpho) Morpho rhetenor
The Blue Morpho is one of several species of bright blue butterflies. They are part of the Morpho genus, Nymphalidae family and Lepidoptera order.
The term Blue Morpho can refer to the Menelaus Blue Morpho (Morpho Menelaus), Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho Peleides) or Rhetenor Blue Morpho (Morpho Rhetenor).
The Common Blue Morpho Butterfly, species name Morpho peleides, is also called the Emperor, the Blue Morpho and Peleides Blue Morpho. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is one of the largest butterflies in the world, with a seven to eight inch (17.8 to 20.7 cm) wingspan. The Blue Morpho Butterfly bright blue wings generate their color due to thousands of tiny scales. The wings are flashed quickly to frighten away predators. Hence the Blue Morpho Butterfly wings are not actually colored blue but look that way. The underside of the wings is brown, and the drab color helps them blend in when the wings are folded against the body or when the Blue Morpho Butterfly are at rest. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also have bronze colored spots on their wings that look like eyes, potentially scaring off predators. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also preferring to stay in groups to deter predators.
The Common Blue Morpho Butterfly is an iridescent butterfly found in Mexico, Central America and northern South America. The Blue Morpho Butterfly do not live in the Neartic biome region defined by the Isthmus of Panama.
Blue Morpho Butterfly comes in four stages, egg, larva "caterpillars", pupa "chrysalis" and adult Butterfly.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue.
When caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look
An adult butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.
The Morpho peleides has a very short lifecycle, just 115 days from egg to adulthood to death. After the Blue Morpho pupates, it loses the ability to eat and instead can only drink.
These butterflies have a broad diet. Their eggs are laid on plants in the Leguminosae family, Lonchocarpus, Medicago satvia, Bignonicaeae, ithecellbium and others. Their caterpillars are known to be cannibalistic if no other food is available. The larva are beige with green patches. The Menelaus morpho has several sub-species, and for some of these, the caterpillars may have yellow patches. The caterpillars in the Blue morpho family prefer the leaves of plants in the pea family.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. An adult Blue Morpho Butterfly average life span is from a week to a year
The top flight speed of a Blue Morpho Butterfly is 12 miles per hour and some moths can fly up to 25 miles per hour.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Blue Morpho Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah (28 cel). Blue Morpho Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a true insect, with a proboscis, a long protruding mouth part used to suck its food. The adults drink the juice of many rotted fruits, especially rooted fruit like the lychee, kiwi and mango. Drinking the rotted fruit can make them drunk; the drunk Blue Morpho Butterfly wobbles in flight. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also drink nectar, the juices of dead animals and some fungi. The rapid flashing of their bright blue wings and the brown underside can make them hard to find, since it looks like they are disappearing and reappearing.
The adults of the Blue Morpho Butterfly species spends most of its time within 16 feet (five meters) of the forest floor. The Blue Morpho Butterfly will sometimes chase mates to all levels of the forest. Males are larger and more brightly colored than the females.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly are not listed with a conservation status with the IUCN. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is sought by collectors, but its greatest predators are the flycatcher and jacamar.
The Rhetenor Blue Morpho is found in the Amazon basin. It is distinguishable from other Blue Morpho Butterfly by its more concave forewing.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers. The Blue Morpho Butterfly's wings are made up of hard tubes that are covered with a thin tissue. The Blue Morpho Butterfly's wings are covered with fine dusty like scales. A Butterfly has four brightly colored wings having distinctive patterns made up of tiny scales. The bright patterns scales sometimes have hidden ultraviolet patterns for attracting mates. The bright colors are also used as camouflage to hide them or scare off predictors.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting
The estimate is between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts – the head, abdomen and thorax. A Blue Morpho Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Blue Morpho Butterfly’s mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up.
The Blue Morpho is one of several species of bright blue butterflies. They are part of the Morpho genus, Nymphalidae family and Lepidoptera order.
The term Blue Morpho can refer to the Menelaus Blue Morpho (Morpho Menelaus), Peleides Blue Morpho (Morpho Peleides) or Rhetenor Blue Morpho (Morpho Rhetenor).
The Common Blue Morpho Butterfly, species name Morpho peleides, is also called the Emperor, the Blue Morpho and Peleides Blue Morpho. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is one of the largest butterflies in the world, with a seven to eight inch (17.8 to 20.7 cm) wingspan. The Blue Morpho Butterfly bright blue wings generate their color due to thousands of tiny scales. The wings are flashed quickly to frighten away predators. Hence the Blue Morpho Butterfly wings are not actually colored blue but look that way. The underside of the wings is brown, and the drab color helps them blend in when the wings are folded against the body or when the Blue Morpho Butterfly are at rest. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also have bronze colored spots on their wings that look like eyes, potentially scaring off predators. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also preferring to stay in groups to deter predators.
The Common Blue Morpho Butterfly is an iridescent butterfly found in Mexico, Central America and northern South America. The Blue Morpho Butterfly do not live in the Neartic biome region defined by the Isthmus of Panama.
Blue Morpho Butterfly comes in four stages, egg, larva "caterpillars", pupa "chrysalis" and adult Butterfly.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue.
When caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look
An adult butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.
The Morpho peleides has a very short lifecycle, just 115 days from egg to adulthood to death. After the Blue Morpho pupates, it loses the ability to eat and instead can only drink.
These butterflies have a broad diet. Their eggs are laid on plants in the Leguminosae family, Lonchocarpus, Medicago satvia, Bignonicaeae, ithecellbium and others. Their caterpillars are known to be cannibalistic if no other food is available. The larva are beige with green patches. The Menelaus morpho has several sub-species, and for some of these, the caterpillars may have yellow patches. The caterpillars in the Blue morpho family prefer the leaves of plants in the pea family.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. An adult Blue Morpho Butterfly average life span is from a week to a year
The top flight speed of a Blue Morpho Butterfly is 12 miles per hour and some moths can fly up to 25 miles per hour.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Blue Morpho Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah (28 cel). Blue Morpho Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a true insect, with a proboscis, a long protruding mouth part used to suck its food. The adults drink the juice of many rotted fruits, especially rooted fruit like the lychee, kiwi and mango. Drinking the rotted fruit can make them drunk; the drunk Blue Morpho Butterfly wobbles in flight. The Blue Morpho Butterfly also drink nectar, the juices of dead animals and some fungi. The rapid flashing of their bright blue wings and the brown underside can make them hard to find, since it looks like they are disappearing and reappearing.
The adults of the Blue Morpho Butterfly species spends most of its time within 16 feet (five meters) of the forest floor. The Blue Morpho Butterfly will sometimes chase mates to all levels of the forest. Males are larger and more brightly colored than the females.
The Blue Morpho Butterfly are not listed with a conservation status with the IUCN. The Blue Morpho Butterfly is sought by collectors, but its greatest predators are the flycatcher and jacamar.
The Rhetenor Blue Morpho is found in the Amazon basin. It is distinguishable from other Blue Morpho Butterfly by its more concave forewing.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers. The Blue Morpho Butterfly's wings are made up of hard tubes that are covered with a thin tissue. The Blue Morpho Butterfly's wings are covered with fine dusty like scales. A Butterfly has four brightly colored wings having distinctive patterns made up of tiny scales. The bright patterns scales sometimes have hidden ultraviolet patterns for attracting mates. The bright colors are also used as camouflage to hide them or scare off predictors.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting
The estimate is between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts – the head, abdomen and thorax. A Blue Morpho Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".
A Blue Morpho Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Blue Morpho Butterfly’s mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up.
MALACHITE BUTTERFLY
Facts about Malachite Butterfly, "Scientific name for Malachite Butterfly's is Siproeta stelenes" Malachite Butterfly is a neo-tropical type of brush-footed butterfly that comes from the genus Siproeta of the Nymphalidae family. The Malachite Butterfly attains it name due to its bright green color wings that resemble the color of the malachite mineral. The Malachite Butterfly can be seen all through Central and the northern parts of South America, where it is one among the most widespread butterfly varieties. Malachite Butterfly range extends as far as the northern parts of South Texas and the Florida tip, to Cuba, and the southern parts of Brazil. The Malachite Butterfly usually live in citrus, mango and avocado orchards and in semi-deciduous or subtropical evergreen woodlands. The outstanding Malachite Butterfly employs its unbelievable complexion, big size, and confident, stylish flight to attract any butterfly lover.
Features
The Malachite Butterfly has a big size wing, usually with a wingspan that ranges from 3.3 inches to 3.9 inches (8.3 cm to 9.9 cm). These wings are yellow-green or brilliant green and black color on the upper sides, highlighted with black color lines, ovals, and quadrangles in standard patterns. The underside of their wings has the similar black lines and quadrangles, but emphasized with the orange color, and they are olive green and light brown in color. The hind wing underside of the butterfly has smudged black color marks within the orange color marginal band. The summer form butterfly is smaller and includes silver markings as a substitute of black color smudges.
Opening as horned, spiky black color caterpillars with red color markings, it becomes an emerald green chrysalis marked with pink color and finally evolves into an eye-catching adult butterfly. The chrysalis integrates well with the leaves of their host plant.
Sexual dimorphism is well-defined in Malachite Butterfly varieties that the bigger and the light colored female butterflies are sometimes erroneously placed in dissimilar subspecies than the male butterflies. These butterflies are magnificent, powerful fliers, and the green color of their wings shines and excels while it catches the sun.
Diet
The adult Malachite Butterfly feeds on rotting fruit, flower nectar, bat dung and dead animals. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of their host plant.
Breeding
Usually, the Malachite Butterfly has two to three broods in the summer season and one brood of their winter form overwinters. The male Malachite Butterfly perches on shrubs in an orchard or forest openings and occasionally, they will patrol for female Malachite Butterfly by means of a sluggish, hovering flight. Adult Malachite Butterfly roost jointly beneath the leaves of low flowering shrubs. The female Malachite Butterfly lays her green color eggs singly on the fresh leaves of the Green Shrimp Plant, which is a widespread weed in Southeastern parts of Florida, and on the leaves of other plants that belong to the Acanthaceae family, particularly Ruellia, where the caterpillars munch and rest underneath. The larvae of the Malachite Butterfly are insatiable feeders and they have a horned, thorny black color body with red color markings. The caterpillar of the Malachite Butterfly grows quickly and is extremely durable. A green color Malachite Butterfly will come out to spread its wings and they habitually rest upside down below the leaves. Malachite Butterfly are insects. A Malachite Butterfly is a herbivore; Meaning that as a caterpillar its first food is its own eggshell and than it will eat the leaves of the plant on which it is hatched. When it becomes a Malachite Butterfly, it will feed mostly on nectar from flowers, rotting fruit and water with a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw.
Life cycle of a Malachite Butterfly comes in four stages, egg, larva "caterpillars", pupa "chrysalis" and adult Butterfly.
A Malachite Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue.
When caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look
An adult Malachite Butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.
Malachite Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. An adult butterfly average life span is from a week to a year
The top flight speed of a Malachite Butterfly is 12 miles per hour and some moths can fly up to 25 miles per hour.
A Malachite Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Malachite Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah (28 cel). Malachite Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.
A Malachite Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting
The estimate is between 15000 and 20000 different species of butterfly.
A Malachite Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts – the head, abdomen and thorax. A Malachite Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".
A Malachite Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Malachite Butterfly’s mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up.
A Malachite Butterfly has three pairs of legs and their feet have little claws that help them stand on flowers. The Malachite Butterfly's wings are made up of hard tubes that are covered with a thin tissue. The Malachite Butterfly's wings are covered with fine dusty like scales. A Malachite Butterfly has four brightly colored wings having distinctive patterns made up of tiny scales. The bright patterns scales sometimes have hidden ultraviolet patterns for attracting mates. The bright colors are also used as camouflage to hide them or scare off predictors.
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