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Blues Morpho Butterfly: Anatomy: The Blue Morpho Butterfly Is A Species of

The Blue Morpho Butterfly has brilliant blue wings as males and brown wings with white spots for females. They have a wingspan of about 3-4 inches and drink juices of rotting fruit using their proboscis. The caterpillar is red-brown with bright green patches and eats the plant Erythroxylum pilchrum at night.

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Blues Morpho Butterfly: Anatomy: The Blue Morpho Butterfly Is A Species of

The Blue Morpho Butterfly has brilliant blue wings as males and brown wings with white spots for females. They have a wingspan of about 3-4 inches and drink juices of rotting fruit using their proboscis. The caterpillar is red-brown with bright green patches and eats the plant Erythroxylum pilchrum at night.

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Blues Morpho Butterfly

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Anatomy: The Blue Morpho Butterfly is a species of neotropical butterfly that has brilliant blue wings (the females are are not as brilliantly colored as the males and have a brown edge with white spots surrounding the iridescent blue area). The undersides (visible when the butterfly is resting) are brown with bronze-colored eyespots. The Blue Morpho has a wingspan of about inches (!" cm). #dults drin$ the %uices of rotting fruit using their straw-li$e proboscis. The caterpillar of the Blue Morpho is red-brown with bright patches of limegreen on the bac$& and it eats the plant Erythroxylum pilchrum nocturnally (at night). Classification: 'rder (epidoptera (butterflies and moths)& )amily *ymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies)& +enus Morpho& ,pecies menelaus.

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