Butterflies have several means of protecting themselves.
Firstly, some are very bright colours. Predators often assume that a bright colour means poisonous. The predator will leave brightly colour prey alone, rather than risk being poisoned.
Secondly, a lot of butterflies have what look like eyes on their wings. These eyes appear like larger scarier animals than the predator. This will often deter the predator from attacking.
While in the cocoon, a butterfly does not eat anything. It survives on the nutrients stored from when it was a caterpillar. Once the butterfly emerges from the cocoon, it will feed on nectar from flowers to sustain itself.
A cocoon is a protective covering made of silk that encases a butterfly pupa, while a chrysalis is a hardened outer shell formed by the butterfly pupa itself. Both serve as a shelter for the pupa during its transformation into a butterfly, but they are made differently and have distinct appearances.
Plants came first as they make the that food the insects eat.
The hard shell covering the pupa is called a chrysalis. It is formed when a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis and transforms into a pupa before emerging as an adult butterfly or moth. The chrysalis protects the pupa as it undergoes this transformation.
Caterpillars.
It makes itself look like a poisonous butterfly
A viceray butterfly protects its self by comoufluging
that butterfly camouflage itself
It protects itself
a butterfly protects it self by using camoflauge on its wings to confuse attackers or blend in
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
a tough coating of chitin that protects and covers the body.
If it is the the butterfly effect that the butterfly starts that sets off the avalanche then yes, but if it is the actual butterfly by itself then no.
it protects the eggs by sitting on and protects it from enemies
a tough coating of chitin that protects and covers the body.
a tiger salamander protects itself by poisoning its prey.
the eye lashes protects the eye from on coming objects