
6 Oct, 07
終於見到Jun響story smart 的作品啦 – The caterpillar and the butterfly!
Jun 話呢隻係Blue Morpho Butterfly wor。
Blue Morpho Butterfly其實係咁既:

Blue Morpho Butterfly
Range: Central and South America
Habitat: Rainforest
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's...
a swarm of blue morphos! As they flit above the rainforest treetops, the butterflies' brilliant blue color can be seen by pilots flying overhead. Now that's cool!
Not True Blue
Despite their stunning color, blue morphos are not true blue - that is, their wings are not colored blue. So what's the deal? Like all butterflies, morphos have tiny, overlapping scales covering their wings. In blue morphos, the scales on their wing tops have tiny ridges that reflect blue light. So even though the butterflies aren't colored blue, their wing tops look blue!
In contrast, the underside of their wings is brown, visible when the butterflies are at rest and their wings are folded up. The drab color helps them blend in with their surroundings and hide from enemies like birds and large insects. If the butterflies are discovered, they have a second line of defense: two bronze-colored wing spots that look like eyes - perfect for scaring off would-be predators.
Changing Tastes
An adult blue morpho - like all butterflies - drinks its food rather than eats it. It uses its proboscis (long, protruding mouth part) to drink sap and fruit juices.
But like all butterflies, adult morphos were plant-chomping caterpillars as youngsters. Blue morpho caterpillars are especially fond of leaves in the pea family.
Morph-ing
So how do blue morpho caterpillars turn into blue morpho butterflies? Like all butterflies, they make an amazing transformation known as metamorphosis. First, eggs hatch into larvae, better known as caterpillars. Blue morpho caterpillars aren't blue at all: they're reddish-brown with bright patches of lime green on the back.
After a while the caterpillars wrap themselves in protective enclosures, called chrysalises. At this stage the insects are called pupae. After some time, pupation ends and the mature butterflies emerge from their chrysalises.
More info at
http://www.stlzoo.org/animals/abouttheanimals/invertebrates/insects/butterfliesandmoths/bluemorpho.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho_(butterfly)
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