Blue Morpho

[guppiecat]

In reading about these guys, I learned that, like all* butterflies, it can’t chew so it has to suck fluids from through it’s proboscis. Unlike most butterflies, this one lives off of “rotting or fermenting fruit.”

That means you’re looking at a photo of a carrion eater.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[ororo]

I have a shot of one of these, but Indidnt know what it was called. I love the shade of blue.