The red-gray butterfly is one of the earliest butterflies to appear in spring,
This gray butterfly wingspan of 35 mm, not only lively and beautiful, but also a veritable survival master in nature, when the cold winter insects sleep, the larvae of the red gray butterfly can stay half awake and half sleep, they will hide under the dead branches and leaves at the root of the sheep's hoof, waiting for the opportunity to feed and complete the development. When it is cold, their bodies are frosted but stiff and do not die, as long as the temperature warms up to the temperature of their activities, they will immediately wake up to eat the tender shoot tissue of the sheep's hooves, even if such a warming time is only a short period of time, cold will freeze again, warm up a little and then get up to eat, so repeatedly, other species of insects in the winter will die a lot of cold, red gray butterfly larvae are rarely dead in winter, when other insects are still asleep, it has quietly completed development, March 1, The first generation of red-gray butterflies will be the first to dance in the spring light. People first saw them in the spring light, who would have known that they had such a tenacious experience in winter.
The picture below is of the red gray butterfly host wrinkle leaf sorrel (sheep's hoof) and the red gray butterfly that inhabits the host
Bloggers often go outdoors to shoot butterflies, and from time to time they will sigh - if you can become a lively butterfly that can dance with its butterflies, how good it is, where you want to fly, where you want to fall, fly enough on this shore, run to the other shore to fly, don't meet birds, encounter fear of small lives; don't encounter butterflies like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the wife will be jealous.