LIFE CYCLE: Within the Bahia Honda colony ... FEEDING: Larval food plants for the Miami blue butterfly include the gray and yellow nickerbean and other members of the pea family, such as acacia and ...

so even on a dull rainy day this showy butterfly will be dancing about mingling with visitors.' The blue morpho's beauty belies a darker aspect of its life cycle - the larvae have a tendency to eat ...

By rearing the subspecies Dira clytus clytus in controlled conditions, the researchers documented the butterfly's complete life cycle, from egg to adult. Two distinct pupation and adult emergence ...