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abgsedapmalam · Post time 5-6-2012 11:46 PM

The incredible "glass" butterfly

About this butterfly, I just learned from a post at the

stilus007 in the incredible "glass" butterfly .
Never before has such a wonderful butterfly did not hear anything. I feel once again a pioneer!

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In a post two photos ... and this, you know, I will be enough. So find another. They are beautiful!

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In the humid forests of the Amazon inhabited by Greta oto butterfly amazing from the family Nymphalidae transparent as a glass of the finest wings.

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The English name of this butterfly «glasswinged butterfly» and means - a butterfly with wings of glass. This property is due to the lack of scales on the transparent tissue between the veins.

Greta oto Adults feed on nectar of different plants, but it lays eggs only on plants of the genus tsestrum.

Caterpillars "glass" butterfly feeding on this plant, accumulate in their tissues toxic alkaloids.

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As a result, the adult butterflies are repugnant to the taste to potential predators.

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It will be sufficient enough for a butterfly to someone once, so that the next meeting has not coveted.

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"Glass" Butterflies are indicators of the ideal state of the environment and the loss of this species means pollution of their habitats.

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