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Life cycle of the monarch butterfly. Butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year depending on the species. Many species have long larval life stages while others can remain dormant in their pupal or egg stages and thereby survive winters. [36] The Melissa Arctic (Oeneis melissa) overwinters twice as a caterpillar. [37]
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Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717 [ 1]) was a German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to document observations about insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss Merian family . Merian received her artistic training from ...
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Another form of defence is the taste of the butterfly. Similar to the monarch butterfly, the Apollo butterfly produces a repulsive taste to its predator. The butterfly seems to get this foul taste from its plant host, the Sedum stenopetalum. There is a bitter tasting cyanoglucoside, sarmentonsin, which is found in both the butterfly and the plant
Morpho helenor peleides. Morpho peleides, the Peleides blue morpho, common morpho[ 1] or the emperor[ 2][ 3] is an iridescent tropical butterfly found in Mexico, Central America, northern South America, Paraguay and Trinidad. Most authorities [ 4] believe that peleides is a subspecies of Morpho helenor. [ 5]
The name morpho, meaning "changed" or "modified", is also an epithet . Blue morphos are severely threatened by the deforestation of tropical forests and habitat fragmentation. Humans provide a direct threat to this genus because their beauty attracts artists and collectors from all over the globe who wish to capture and display them.
The students released the butterflies after watching them grow from caterpillars. SLO County kids raised butterflies and released them in their school garden. Here’s a look