Peacock butterfly is also known as: beautiful eye butterfly. It is a common butterfly. With a little attention, it is easy to distinguish it from the butterflies in the flowers. Its beautiful "big eyes" are easy to attract your eyeballs.
Ha, take a closer look, but also a little happy sheep shadow yo
The ventral surface of the wings does not have eye lines, and when the wings are closed, they are like dead leaves blending into the environment
The peacock butterfly is a favorite species of butterfly in birds. The peacock butterfly, on the other hand, scares off predators by spreading its wings with eye-like markings and saves its own life.
Ha, "big eyes", not only beautiful, but also can scare the enemy to protect the body
There are also some other butterflies in the butterfly family that also have mimetic markings, such as the peacock butterfly in the butterfly family, and the eye butterflies in the eye butterfly family have mimic eye markings. However, in the matching of the quasi-eye markings with the color and the whole, the peacock butterfly is better than the beauty, or more in line with the aesthetic taste of human beings.
Peacock butterfly
Eye butterflies
The moths in Lepidoptera also have many eye-like markings. Like the silkworm moth in the family Silkworm Moth, the Nocturnal Moth in the Nocturnal Family, etc. It's just a little confusing, if the "beautiful eyes" of peacock butterflies are to intimidate predators, then what is the purpose of the "beautiful eyes" of the moths that come out of the day and night
The peacock butterfly (Lepidoptera/Butterfly family) spreads its wings 50 to 60 mm wide. The surface of the wings is orange , and there is a large eye marking on the front and back of the wings. Females have a paler wing surface and ventral surface, and the white bands on the side of the eye stripes are thicker than those of males. It lives in flat to low-altitude mountainous areas, and the larval host plants are dingjing grass, water ding grass, Daan water coat, plantain and so on. Adults fly quickly, have more sensitive habits, and like to visit flowers. Distribution: Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Tibet, Yunnan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places.