Male Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly Today's featured page: Plant Cell Glossary Printoutįemale Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly Printout is a user-supported site.Īs a bonus, site members have access to a banner-ad-free version of the site, with print-friendly pages. Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the biggest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1 ft (30 cm) wide. This rare, tropical butterfly is from a lowland coastal rainforest in New Guinea. This huge butterfly is on the US Endangered Species List. Its rainforest habitat is being reduced as oil palm plantations are created. This enormous butterfly was named by Alfred S. Meek (in 1907) to honor Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), the Danish wife of King Edward VII of England (1841-1910).ĭESCRIPTION AT EACH STAGE OF THE LIFE-CYCLEīutterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis in which they go through four different life stages. It takes about a month for the egg to mature into an adult.Įgg: A butterfly starts its life as an egg. The female Queen Alexandra's Birdwing lays its eggs on the pipevine plant ( Aristolochia schlecteri). The Elden Ring The Four Belfries is a location in Liurnia of the Lakes location. When the egg hatches, its meals (the leaves of this plant) are easily available.Ĭaterpillar: The larva (caterpillar) hatches from an egg and eats Aristolochia schlecteri (pipevine) leaves almost constantly. The caterpillar molts (loses its old skin) many times as it grows. The caterpillar is black with red tentacles, a cream-colored spot in the middle of its body, and long, fleshy tentacles all over its body. Pupa: It turns into a pupa (chrysalis) the size of a person's thumb. As the body transforms into a butterfly within the chrysalis, it neither eats nor drinks.Īdult: A beautiful, flying adult emerges. There is no growth during this stage, but the butterfly will sip nectar. This adult will continue the cycle by reproducing. The life span of the adult is about 3 months.įemale (left) and male (right) Queen Alexandra's Birdwing The female is larger and brown with cream spots and a cream-colored body with a red tuft of fur on the thorax the male is brown with blue and green markings and a bright yellow abdomen. The males and females are very different in size, wing coloration, pattern, and shape, and body color. The female is larger, has brown wings (with white markings) and has a cream-colored body with a red tuft of fur on the thorax. The male is smaller, much brighter (with blue and green marking on its wings) and a bright yellow body. The caterpillar's first meal is its own eggshell. After that, the caterpillars eat the pipevine plant ( Aristolochia schlecteri), incorporating its poison into their bodies, becoming distasteful to predators. The plant is a long-leaved, tree-climbing vine with seed pods.īutterflies can only sip liquid food using a tube-like proboscis, which is a long, flexible "tongue." This proboscis uncoils to sip food, and coils up again into a spiral when not in use.
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