The Butterfly Guy

       I'm back for my second edition in the butterfly genus series! Today I'm going to go over the genus Morpho . These butterflies are known for their vibrant blue coloring and are common throughout South America. Let's start with Morpho didus.         Morpho didus, also known as the Giant Morpho   is probably the most well known butterfly in this genus . This butterfly is found in Peru and can have one of the largest wingspans for a butterfly from this genus. The male has much more of the blue coloring compared to the female. This butterfly, along with most of the butterflies in this genus, has big eye-spots on the underside of its wings. When threatened, it displays these eye-spots to the predator. The predator is stunned for a moment and in that moment, the butterfly flies away.        Now I am going to move on to one of my favorite butterflies in this genus, Morpho rhetenor . This butterfly has one of the dee...

       Hello! Today I'm going to show you 5 of the rarest butterflies in the world.         1. Prepona praeneste, or The Jeweled Butterfly                This butterfly is found throughout South America. It is very sturdily built and is a powerful flyer. The genus Prepona  feeds on animal dung and rotting fruit. This butterfly generally stays up in the canopy of the jungle, which is one of the reasons why it is so rare. Another factor is the fact that the underside of the butterfly is made up of varying shades of grey and brown which makes it hard to see if it has landed on a plant or fruit.        2. Papilio chikae or the Luzon Swallowtail        This is a very pretty butterfly found in southeastern Asia and Australia. There are only a few pockets of this butterfly left in the wild. It is listed in CITES which prohibits the international ...

Hi all!       I'm back for another topic on butterflies. Today I'm going to go over some of the most common misconceptions about butterflies. 1. Butterflies are beautiful and moths are not       While it is true that butterflies generally have more color and a greater range of it, some moths are very colorful. Take, for example, the Sunset Moth. This moth flies only on the island of Madagascar and it looks very much like a butterfly, but it is a moth. It has all the colors of the rainbow and is one of my personal favorites. The plume moths are also favorites of mine. They have long, feather-like wings that are divided into 2 or 3 different "plumes". These butterflies fly in many places including England, Germany, and Italy. Its genus has over 40 sub-families which have are colored either white or brown. This is the Sunset Moth, which is common in Madagascar This is Pterophorus pentadactylus, the White Plume Moth 2. If you rub a butterfly's ...

       Today I am going to start a series on a few major geneses of butterflies including Morpho , Charaxes , and Danaus . It will probably be 4-5 posts long, but I may do more. So lets jump right into the genus Ornithoptera !        This genus is my favorite geneses of butterflies. Their size, rarity, and color make them one of the most coveted geneses of butterflies. There are many different variations in this genus. The most extreme variations are called aberrant, or aberrations. These butterflies were deformed when they came out of their chrysalis or flew in regions with an excess amount of UV rays which resulted in them looking quite different.         The most common species of Ornithoptera would be either Ornithoptera croesus, or Ornithoptera priamus, more commonly known as Wallace’s golden birdwing, and the emerald birdwing . They are both wide-spread throughout northern Australia, New Guinea, and sout...