The Viceroy mimics the Monarch for a special reason. The Monarch is poisonous, and so by the Viceroy acting like it's poisonous, predators avoid it. There is one difference though, the Viceroy has a black line running across his lower hind-wings.
no^ the color of the viceroy is close to the monarchs and so at mating season it can affect them
The viceroy's colors are black and orange, which mimic the Monarch butterfly. This is to protect itself against predators. Since Monarchs do not taste good to birds, they will avoid them.
The Viceroy's colors mimic those of the Monarch butterfly. They do this to protect themselves against predators. Predators know that Monarch Butterflies do not taste good, so they avoid them, and therefore will also avoid the Viceroy.
The Aztecs believed that adult Monarch butterflies are reincarnates of their fallen warriors. It is also why they wore the Monarch butterfly colors into battle.
Monarch butterflies start their lives out as caterpillars. A 'baby monarch' would be a monarch caterpillar. Monarch caterpillars striped black and yellow along their back.
the monarch butterflies eyes are black. They may have dark orange lateral filtering pigment distributed heterogeneously in the eye which helps them distinguish between many colors.
Yes, there are several colors of the Monarch Butterfly, such as yellow and blue. Just type the words yellow monarch butterfly into any search engine to find a website that displays the Yellow version. (there are other colors as well).
First off, it can scare predators with its bright colors. Second, it tastes HORRIBLE, so most animals wouldn't want to harm it anyway.
Fires death rays if a predator gets too close! Seriously, like all butterflies, the Monarch butterfly has compound eyes. Compound eyes give butterflies excellent color perception and motion detection. They can see objects above, below, beside, in front of, and below them all at the same time. Butterflies can see a wide range of colors.
Many butterflies use eye spots, like peacocks, for defense. The spots are a common form of defense that use a pattern on the top, underneath, or both sides or their front and back wings. Some butterfly species have two large eye spots on their rear wings. When a predator approaches, the butterfly will suddenly show its eye spots and frighten the would-be attacker away.
They can be all the colours of the rainbowButterflies come in many different colors. Colors include red, yellow, blue, green orange, purple, black or white. Many butterflies are a combination of different colors. There really are so many different colors that a butterfly can be!
Yes.
butterflies have brighter colors on their wings,
Orange, outlined with black, and white spots on the black. The caterpillars are yellow with black and white stripes.