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Some of the best mimicry I've ever seen https://t.co/bMGhei6zj1 (from https://t.co/X5ZDxl2QZK) pic.twitter.com/DAto7SWR7H

— Mike Inouye (@minouye271) December 26, 2018

How Does Bug Soup Become a Butterfly?

Published on Jan 14, 2017 SciShow

"A caterpillar hatches from an egg, makes a cocoon, and emerges a fully-grown, beautiful butterfly. But, during its time in the cocoon, the caterpillar melts its body into bug goo... then even weirder stuff happens.

Hosted by: Olivia Gordon"

Monarch Butterfly Metamorphosis time-lapse FYV 1080 HD

Published on Aug 1, 2014 FrontYardVideo

"Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly. Late instar caterpillar feeding to pupation to eclosing from a chrysalis as a Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Time-lapse video. FYV FrontYardVideo 1080 HD. Music 'Smile Quiet Looking Up' by Puddle of Infinity"

What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue?

Published on Dec 16, 2014 Deep Look

"What does it mean to be blue? The wings of a Morpho butterfly are some of the most brilliant structures in nature, and yet they contain no blue pigment -- they harness the physics of light at the nanoscale. Learn more about these butterflies: http://goo.gl/dGo5XE"

The Disappearing Monarch and the Oldest Mammal on Earth

Butterfly and Bee Drink Crocodile Tears - La Selva, Costa Rica

Published on May 5, 2014

"A Julia butterfly (Dryas iulia) and a solitary bee (Centris sp.) sip tears from the eyes of spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) on Costa Rica's Puerto Viejo River. Filmed by ecologist Carlos de la Rosa, Director of the La Selva Biological Research Station, in December 2013.

Carlos L de la Rosa (2014) Additional observations of lachryphagous butterflies and bees. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12(4): 210"

Butterfly's Driver's License

Gumdrop Egg

"Blue morpho butterfly egg
Morpho peleides
The red band signals a chemical reaction that follows fertilization. Inside the egg is the germ of a blue morpho, one of the world's largest butterflies, with a wingspan of five to eight inches."
More butterfly and insect eggs at National Geographic

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