Explore insects and other arthropods, including identification, behavior, anatomy and common misconceptions.
Another type of protective coloration is to use patterns to attract the attention of predators, thereby avoiding damage to fatal parts. Eyespots, the pattern found on the wings of most butterflies, are perhaps the best e···
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Hidden colors can be combined with patterns, wing shapes and resting states to enhance the camouflage effect. The most noticeable distinguishing feature of a butterfly at rest is the triangular outline of its wings. Ofte···
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The camouflage coloration of the larval stage of the purple phantom butterfly is a good example of cryptic coloration. The adults lay their eggs on willow leaves in July, and the larvae feed on the willow leaves until th···
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When the 5th instar larvae of the broad-tailed swallowtail butterfly is frightened and turns out its stink horns, it also makes its three thoracic segments bulge into a very large triangle. Together with the three black ···
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The adult is a large eye butterfly. Wings black. There are 2 rows of small white spots on the sub-outer edge of the front of the forewing, and the inner row is larger; there are 1 row of large white spots on the middle o···
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The phenomenon of mimicry in butterflies has been extensively studied and is a controversial topic. It is undoubtedly one of the most striking and interesting phenomena among tropical butterflies that so many butterflies···
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All four stages of butterfly life from egg to adult are attacked by natural enemies. The egg stage is often parasitized by insects from the superfamily Vespa; the larval stage is the most vulnerable to predation. Birds, ···
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Everyone knows the immense power of a crane, but its lifting capacity is not equal to its own weight. The real snatch champions do not belong to cranes or humans, but to dragonflies, scarabs and robber flies that fly in ···
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The body of the flea is brown, and its small and flat body looks so ugly. It seems to be a natural thing that fleas will jump. An ordinary flea can jump up to 20-30 centimeters, which is 200 times its body length, which ···
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In the forests of Indonesia, there lives a giant stick insect with a body length of 33 centimeters. It ranks first among the 1 million species of insects in the insect kingdom. The crown of the longest insect in the worl···
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Among insects, it can be said that it is the only insect that can run, swim, fly, dig and sing all at once like a mole cricket. Although it is not good at everything and cannot win a single championship, it can still be ···
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Everyone knows that horses have great pulling power. A good horse weighing 0.7 tons can pull up to 3.5 tons of goods on a four-wheeled vehicle on a good road surface, which is equivalent to 5 times its own weight. You ma···
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Medium size. The forewing is 40 mm long, with a gray-green wing surface. There are longitudinal diagonal strips from the base of the wing outward. It is brown-black from below the front line to the inside of the middle c···
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Alias of the two-tailed swallowtail butterfly: the two-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly, the two-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly, the Yunnan brown swallowtail butterfly, and the two-tailed brown silk butterfly. Wing···
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Alias of three-tailed swallowtail butterfly: Chinese brown swallowtail butterfly, three-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly, three-tailed brown silk butterfly. Wingspan is 86~92mm. The body is black with white hairs on th···
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Sasakia charonda Hewitson Wingspan 93-120mm. The male wings are purple from the base to the middle with white spots, and the rest of the wings are dark brown with yellow spots; the female wings are all dark brown, with t···
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This species is a precious large silk butterfly that has long been extinct in Poland and Spain. Therefore, it was the first insect to be included in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fau···
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The discovery and disclosure of the long-tailed tiger swallowtail butterfly has a long historical process. In 1944, Professor Li Chuanlong, my country's famous butterfly expert, was on his ninth annual butterfly-flying t···
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In early spring on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the motherland, you can see a medium-sized, brightly colored swallowtail butterfly with yellow and black stripes on its wings and tiger-like spots flying about. T···
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The shape of this species is very similar to the golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly, except that the golden spots on the hind wings are band-shaped, so it is also called the golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly. The ad···
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The golden-spotted swallowtail butterfly belongs to the Papilionidae family. The wingspan is about 8.1 cm. It is named after a large golden spot on its hind wings. Male and female dimorphism. The wings of the male butter···
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Although some butterflies are of the same species, they can appear in different colors and shapes in different seasons. For example, the summer form of the peacock-eyed butterfly Precis almana L. has no obvious sharp cor···
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For some species of butterflies, the color patterns of male butterflies are similar, but the female butterflies are very varied and very different. For example, some have tail protrusions, some have no tail protrusions, ···
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Being in an environment surrounded by flowers and green grass will certainly make you forget all the favors and humiliations, but if there are a few soaring colorful butterflies around at this time, it will definitely ad···
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