A Monarch butterfly does not want to conceal itself. It wants all potential predators to notice it and not mistake it for any other type of butterfly. The reason for this is that Monarch apparently taste terrible due to it's diet of milkweed when a caterpillar. Once a predator eats one it never wants to eat another. So the butterflies want to warn off the predators. Viceroy butterflies have noticed this and have adopted the Monarchs coloration. They are essentially saying to the predators "Hey! I look like a Monarch Butterfly so I probably taste bad. Leave me alone and go catch something tasty!"
Many species of butterflies use camouflage to hide from predators, while some species use bright colours to warn off potential predators. Reds, yellows and Oranges are common "warning" colours.
The bright blue coloring is only on the inside of the wings. The outside is duller, brown, and slightly resembles an owl butterfly, camouflaging itself into the environment.
Also, it is possible that the bright blue coloring on the inside of the wings serves as a warning color for predators, but usually warning colors are red, yellow, or orange.
A butterfly often has markings that act as camouflage or a distraction, to hide it from predators. Some butterflies have large markings that look like eyes to scare predators away. Others are colored to look like logs or plants to make them hard to see when they are holding still.
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With their bright colors and thats how it protect it self
The cardenolides obtained from milkweed make Monarch Butterflies toxic to many predators.
They hide in leafs or branches.
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The viceroy butterfly does not eat milkweed, it is a mimic of the monarch butterfly which does eat milkweed. The milkweed makes the monarch butterfly toxic to birds. Once a bird eats its first monarch butterfly it gets so sick that it learns to never try to eat anything that looks like a monarch butterfly ever again. The viceroy butterfly has evolved to mimic the monarch butterfly to avoid being eaten by birds that have previously tried eating a monarch butterfly.
ye it is called the Viceory Butterfly
A Monarch butterfly.
The biggest threat to the monarch butterfly are wasps, bees, frogs, and especially people. Insects like to eat the eggs of Monarch Butterflies.
the monarch butterfly protects itself by its bright warning coloration. When a bird eats aMonarch butterfly, he will get sick and vomit it up. The next time, the bird will not eat a Monarch. The Viceroy butterfly also has similar coloration, but it does not produce the same somewhat poisonous chemicals that the Monarch does
Their colors warn predators that they are poisonous
There is a species of butterfly called the Queen butterfly. It's coloration mimics that of the Monarch butterfly. As far as butterflies having queens like ants and bees do, no there cannot be a queen butterfly because butterflies do not form colonies in the same way that ants and bees do.
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A monarch butterfly. There is no Monarch butterfly silly!
The spelling is "monarch butterfly" (plural "monarch butterflies").
Monarch - butterfly - was created in 1758.
monarch butterfly do not have babies . after the nymph open it will be the adults butterfly
A monarch butterfly is a consumer.
What do Monarch butterflies feed on
Danaus plexippus.
the monarch butterfly