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Mostly you can't. Sexual dimorphism is the exception rather than the rule among butterflies (unlike birds.) So most species look pretty much alike and are difficult to tell apart. (Although they know, and that's what really matters.) Among sexually dimorphic species, the differences can be as subtle as the color of the antennae or as dramatic as looking like completely different species. Whatever the differences, they can be learned. And then it's easy to tell.

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a male has a white dot on his head

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You can't. You have to wait until it pupates. if it comes out of the cocoon as a hamster it was male, if a parrot it was female.

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