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How do butterflies camouflage?

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How do butterflies camouflage?

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Butterflies use camouflage as an effective survival strategy. Butterflies that might find tasty are well camouflaged or just drab. Some develop spots to frighten or distract predators,like birds, Some have, “eye spots” on their wings that look like eyes of a larger animal. Some species have bright spots near the tail that draw the predator’s attention away from the head. Many butterflies hav chunks missing frontheir hind wings. Which made the predator avoid attacking the botterflies head, which would be fatal. They can still fly.Brightly colored butterflies are either poisonous–or mimics of a poisonous butterfly. Butterflies that birds might find tasty are well camouflged or just drab to blend in when they are resting on a tree trunk or rocky ground.

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