What do apollo butterflies eat

A Apollo Butterfly will attach its eggs to leaves with a special glue. When Apollo caterpillars become fully grown they will attach to an appropriate leaf or small branch, than they will shed the outside layer of their skin and a hard skin underneath known as a "chrysalis" will be their new look An adult Apollo Butterfly will come out from the "chrysalis" than it waits a few hours for its wings to dry and fill with blood, before it takes its first flight.

Apollo Butterfly can see yellow, green, and red. A Apollo Butterfly is cold-blooded, which means the body temperature is not regulated on its own. A Butterfly can't fly or eat if their body temperature is below 82 degrees fah 28 cel.

Butterfly's are often basking in the sun with their wings open to gain heat and than the veins in the wings carry the heat to the body.

A Apollo Butterfly has sense organ, on their feet or tarsi, for tasting The estimate is between and different species of butterfly. A Apollo Butterfly has a small body, made up of three parts — the head, abdomen and thorax. A Apollo Butterfly has two large eyes, which are made up of many small parts which are called "compound eyes".

A Apollo Butterfly has two antenna's on the top of their heads, which they use to smell, hear and feel. A Apollo Butterfly mouth is a long tube a "proboscis" - a long narrow tube in their mouth that looks like a straw when its done eating, it rolls the tube back up. The Apollo is certainly one of the most beautiful butterflies and many collectors hold a great value for this butterfly, although it should be noted that in most countries it is illegal to catch, kill or harm them. Requiring pollution-less, natural and wild conditions, the Apollos are at a risk, as more and more of their natural habitat is being changed by the humans.

Your email address will not be published. Skip to content. The red dots on the butterfly's wings serve as a great defense from birds and other predators. Nordens Ark works solely with rearing and reintroducing clouded Apollos, and they are not on show in the park.

The species lives mainly in pastureland. The eggs hatch in April, and the delicate larvae must immediately find the only food they can eat: the leaves of corydalis, one of our first spring flowers. The larvae quickly eat their fill and pupate a month later.

At the start of June, the fully formed white clouded Apollo butterflies hatch. They search for nectar in flowers of many different species including dandelion, sticky catchfly, cow parsley and meadow buttercup.

The female Apollo butterfly lays it's singularly or or in a small pack near the foodplant. The eggs mature but the caterpillar hibernates inside of it's cocoon or as a freshly hatched larva in it's close area. When it becomes spring the larva starts eating the buds on the foodplant.

The caterpillars of later instars eat the leaves also. When it's time for the larva to become a pupa , the caterpillar tries to find a safe place in between the stone, where they then spin themselves cocoon where they then turn into a pupa. The Apollo butterfly only has one generation a year. In many countries, there are laws that protect the Apollo butterfly. However, these laws only protect the individuals, instead of their habitat, and so they do little to lessen the dangers that these populations face less.

The good thing is that there are a lot of different organizations that are here to help this species. For example there is a conservation group in Pieniny National Park that saved a subspecies of the Apollo butterfly. In south-west Germany there is a conservationist group that is working with shepherds to make sure that the Apollo butterfly gets good conditions, because they share their grassland with the shepherds sheep.

One thing that the conservation group did was ask the shepherds to move the sheeps' grazing period to avoid the Apollo butterfly larvae stage, which at that time, the butterfly is vulnerable to being trampled by the sheep.

Because of these amazing efforts people are doing, the Apollo butterfly may be able to live a beautiful life. From CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science. Jump to: navigation , search.