Butterfly's wicked secret

There is a little-known natural secret. That for centuries, butterflies have led the nose of the world. Because behind the butterflies fluttering in the gardens, looking so beautiful with attractive colors is an extended list of criminal records.

Just like many other species are living on planet Earth, butterflies also have dark corners in their lives, and they have lived a hidden life that humans hardly know. The first thing to mention is the color of the butterflies. Beautiful looks can actually be a warning. Like long-winged butterflies Heliconius charithonia. At first glance, this species is just as innocent as other butterflies. But the long-winged butterfly is also a famous poisonous species.

The long winged butterfly is beautiful but has a famous poison.

Not only that, their "toxicity" comes from the caterpillar stage. The caterpillars of the long-winged butterfly moth are carnivorous. The home of the frightening fraternal scene, the caterpillars of this species eat their own brothers and sisters.

If the story is still not cruel enough, think about the trend that leads to their "rape" behavior . Nymphs are the stage between adult larvae and butterflies in the life of butterflies. Therefore, the term "rape nymphs" appeared at this very stage.

When a female is ready to escape from the capsule, a group of males dance around the female, pushing each other and flapping their wings to squeeze each other around. The winner of this brawl will be mating with the children. But their male instincts are often so strong that males mate with females before the females can escape the shell.

That's why the term "pupil rape" formed because females were trapped inside the capsule and there was no other option. Biologists often use the method of "forced intercourse" or "mating" to talk about this phenomenon.

Long-winged butterfly moths are butterflies in the state of Florida, USA and the reason they have this honor may be because of their beautiful appearance. But do not rush to attribute the long winged butterfly as an unusual butterfly, because many butterflies have similar behavior.

One day in the North Nandi forest in Kenya, entomologist Dino Martins was observing an abyss, lowering his forearm between two Charaxe emperors. In the scene of plastic seeping and fermenting from a falling log, a pack of butterflies enjoying the thirst and gradually becoming drunk, the two emperors of Charaxe emperor appeared and began a scuffle. They fly around each other and hit people together. The battle ended with a scene of small wings of losers falling into the forest.

A butterfly flock surrounds a pile of elephant dung in Kenya.

Talking about emperor butterflies, entomologist Martins said: "They are fast, strong species and their favorite drink is stronger than nectar: ​​fermented sap, fresh manure and scavenger." When I met the drink, emperor butterflies swooped down, straightened their taps, and drank to enjoy the salt and amino acids that could not be obtained from trees. This is called swamping , a very common behavior of butterflies. In addition to the puddles on the ground, butterflies also enjoy sweat, tears .

Although possessing a lot of bad habits, however, the story of butterflies is not always the wrong color. They start their life as moth-eating moths or can be carnivores.

Some butterflies are even parasitic in the caterpillar stage. It is the story of butterfly Maculinea rebeli. They use ants to shake off their responsibility to raise children. The small but wicked caterpillars, know how to simulate the sound of queen ants. As a result, the worker ants took them to the nest to serve.

On the inside, they live the royal life and the worker ants are hypnotized to fill the caterpillar with this water. Occasionally, nurse nurses even sacrifice their ants to feed caterpillars when food sources are scarce. In the natural world, if one has to find a fraudulent creator of the ultimate hoax, it must be the Maculinea rebeli.