Adults live in mountainous areas from flat to low altitudes and prefer to suck nectar, and males occasionally absorb water.
<h1>Growth process</h1>
The tailless butterfly is completely metamorphosed (egg ---> larvae---> pupae ---> adults) for a total of about 35 days.
Larvae herbivorous: The larvae feed on citrus plants of the family Rubiaceae, such as grapefruit, oranges, lemons, etc., and can usually be found on the leaves of these plants.
Female butterflies usually lay their eggs on the leaf surface or back of citrus plants, and the eggs are spherical, yellow, and about 1.2 mm in diameter.
The fifth-instar larvae changed their bird dropping-like appearance and were green with brown markings. The terminally old larvae continue to replenish nutrients for 8 days, eat an astonishing amount of citrus plants, and must be prepared to fill up with citrus plants.
The body of the fifth-instar larvae, in addition to using the protective color of green to hide itself, when encountering danger, the head will stick out a stinky horn and emit a stinky smell, thereby scaring away the enemy.
When the fifth-instar larvae are ready to pupate, they will crawl to the appropriate place, stand still for a while, and slowly spit out silk to fix their bodies on the branches.
After ten to twelve days, the green pupa gradually turns black.
Before feathering - the pupal shell becomes transparent, the color of the adult's wings can be seen, and the black and white lines of the abdomen can be seen, and in a few moments, the beautiful tailless phoenix butterfly breaks out of the pupa.
After feathering - the adult pupae breaks out of the time very quickly, it will first stay in place, let the bodily fluids into the wings, so that the wings are extended, and then fly away after the wings dry.
The wings are spread about 70 to 80 mm, the wings are mainly beige markings, the leading edge of the lower wings has an eye-like spot, and the horn has a reddish-brown spot, without tail-like protrusions.
There is little difference between male and female markings, and the blue-black spots on the upper margin of the reddish-brown markings on the surface of the lower wings of female butterflies are large and obvious, which is the focus of identification.
Soon after the male and female have crossed their tails, the females begin to lay eggs.
<h1>Feeding tips</h1>
Tailless butterfly is the most common and easy to raise butterflies in the city, the balcony of the home has been visited by it, also raised, this time in order to do a more detailed and complete record and take pictures, or tirelessly pick grapefruit leaves on time, to see that it grows up day by day according to the program, or a sense of accomplishment.
The children like to tease it the most, and watch it stick out its stinky horns, although one by one they hold their noses and shout, "It stinks!" , but still think that they are so cute, when they feather into butterflies, beautiful wings also let children frequently praise, I hope that this process of transformation, so that children understand the preciousness of life, know how to respect life.
