On November 15, 2019, in Meiziya Village, a suburb of Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, a dead-leaved butterfly picking flowers in a bush of wild chrysanthemums.
On November 15, 2019, in Meiziya Village, a suburb of Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, a dead-leaved butterfly picking flowers in a bush of wild chrysanthemums. Dead leaf butterfly, also known as the dead leaf butterfly, is a butterfly in the family Butterflyidae, the genus Officiae.
The dead leaf butterfly is known for its wings and markings like dead leaves, and is a world-famous mimetic animal, a master of natural camouflage, and when its two wings rest side by side on the branches, it is difficult to distinguish it from the withered dead leaves.
When the dead-leaved butterfly is hunted by birds and is in danger, it will fly in an irregular, deranged manner, quickly falling between the leaves of the plant, and then quickly fold its wings and stand still. At this time, the dead leaf butterfly reveals the pattern on the outside of the wing, resembling a sun-dried dead leaf, and in a fully mimetic camouflage form, birds usually cannot find it.