Some passionflowers transform parts of their leaves into shapes that resemble butterfly eggs; mother butterflies, seeing the "eggs," move on to other plants to deposit their babies. Such mimics ...
Butterflies also go through a lot of changes during their life cycle. The female butterfly lays her eggs on a leaf, out of which hatches a larva or caterpillar. The caterpillar feeds on the leaves ...
We saw this butterfly on a leaf in our garden ... The summer one, which you have here, lays eggs on ivy. These eggs hatch out into caterpillars, feed on the ivy flowers and overwinter as chrysalises.
A butterfly is just one of the creatures that might end up emerging from a chrysalis or a pupa. Butterflies and caterpillars frequently host parasitoids, insects that attack and destroy their hosts, ...
In contrast, this summer conservationists counted 750,000 large blue butterfly eggs. From those, they estimated that around 20,000 butterflies flew, making the south-west of England the largest ...
Pollen contains much more protein than can be found in normal butterfly diets. The extra nutrients allow zebra butterflies to lay more eggs and survive far longer than other species ... As ...