How do beautiful butterflies protect themselves? This way of self-defense is also too powerful

Butterfly, commonly known as "butterfly, arthropod phylum, insect class, lepidoptera, hammer horn suborder collectively." There are about 14,000 species worldwide, most of which are distributed in the Americas, especially in the Amazon Basin. There are 1200 species in China. Butterflies are generally brightly colored, there are many stripes on the body, the color is richer, the wings and body have a variety of spots, the largest butterfly wings can reach about 28 to 30 cm, the smallest is only about 0.7 cm. The main difference between butterflies and moths is that butterflies have a pair of rod-shaped or hammer-shaped antennae on their heads, and the moths have a variety of antennae.

Caution color

Butterfly [Insects]

Postman butterflies, with reddish-black wings and brilliant markings, clearly indicate that this butterfly is poisonous and predators should stay away from them. And it is actually non-toxic.

mimicry

Kallima inachis belongs to the butterfly family. The world-famous mimetic butterfly. It is found in southwestern and central China, at low altitudes in the Himalayas. When resting, the two sides and three blade wings are tightly folded and erect, hiding the body deeply, showing the ventral surface of the wings. The ventral surface is all bronze, resembling dead leaves in autumn, and often changes with the seasons, and the color and form are no different from the color of the leaves. A black stripe and fine stripe that runs through the middle of the front and back wings resemble the midribs and branches of the leaf; the end of the hindwing drags a strip very similar to the petiole "tail", and the dead leaf butterfly is stationary on the branches, making it difficult to distinguish whether it is a butterfly or a leaf.

In order to avoid harm and survive, in addition to the above-mentioned warning colors and mimesis, butterflies still have the instinct to take various self-defense methods to scare off foreign enemies, such as:

When caught, the male butterfly can turn out a pair of glands on its abdomen to quickly emit a foul odor, so that predators such as insectivorous birds have to give up and be spared.

The butterfly larvae have a stinky horn in the center of the back of the front of the chest edge, and when they are frightened, the fork-shaped stink horn immediately turns outward, and the odor vapor evaporates, and the foul odor is unpleasant, so that the enemy is disgusted and spared.

Another example is the V. age of the broad-tailed butterfly, when frightened and turning out the stinky horn, it also makes the three-breasted segment bulge into a very large triangle, and with the three black spots on it, it forms a snake-like threatening posture for self-defense.

More like the V. age of the red-horned pink butterfly, when frightened, it can lift the first five segments of the insect body, with the unique markings on its ventral surface, resembling the posture of a cobra before the attack, intimidating foreign enemies, in order to defend itself and be intriguing.

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