#1. Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly on green grass. They are thought to be one of the rarest species of butterflies found in the world because they are endemic to their very small range of habitat.
Monarch. It's the world's most famous kind of butterfly. The monarch is renowned for its migration, when multiple generations work their way north during spring and summer, then a fall generation flies all the way to southern Mexico or to the California coast to spend the winter.
Blue is the rarest occurring colour in nature, with no true blue pigments in plants. In some ways, blue butterflies are natures way of completing the colour spectrum. From South American wonders to local Tropical icons, here's some stunning blue butterflies from around the world…
Athalia, Atlanta, Ava, Celestina, Claudina, and Farasha are the most popular butterfly names found worldwide.
The purple copper butterfly is one of Australia's rarest butterfly species and is only found in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales. Its habitat is restricted to elevations above 900 metres.
The Palos Verdes blue butterfly was presumed extinct for a decade until Dr. Rudi Mattoni discovered a population persisting at the Defense Fuel Support Point in San Pedro in 1994. The population is estimated at 300 individuals. It is now in the running for the rarest butterfly in the world.
The Pink Rose (Pachliopta kotzebuea) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in the Philippines.
Legend holds that Prince William of Orange (later King William III) was so adored by some early European settlers to North America that they bequeathed the name “Monarch” to our very orange and regal butterfly in his honor.
The rarest animal in the world is the vaquita (Phocoena sinus). It is a kind of critically endangered porpoise that only lives in the furthest north-western corner of the Gulf of California in Mexico. There are only 18 left in the world. It is thought that they may be extinct in ten years.
The Golden Royal (also known as the Dawnas Royal) is rare in Singapore. It was re-discovered in 2005 where a single individual was spotted in a reservior park. Since then there have been a few sightings at various places outside the nature reserve.
This magnificent butterfly flies high in the tree-tops of well-wooded landscapes in central-southern England where it feeds on aphid honeydew and tree sap. The adults are extremely elusive and occur at low densities over large areas.
Diaethria anna, also known as Anna's eighty-eight, is a butterfly in wet tropical forests in Middle America. On rare occasions, it can be found as a stray in south Texas. Its upperside is dark brown with a metallic bluish-green band on the forewings.
Common Brown Butterflies only live in south east Australia, Tasmania and a small area of south west Western Australia. They are the most common native butterfly seen in the backyards around Melbourne & Geelong.
Previous generations completed their life cycle in four weeks. Each of these previous generations migrated north, resulting in four generations over the course of the summer. Butterflies in this last generation are members of the generation that migrates south, often called the monarch super generation.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
There are many species of “rainbow butterflies” and they live in different places around the world. Genera include Chrysiridia, Alcides, and Urania, each with several species. These are in the same sub- family, Uraniinae.
There are both male and female Queen butterflies. Like Monarchs, male Queens have a black spot on each hindwing. These black dots are pheromone scales. Although Monarch butterflies do not use pheromones during courtship and mating, Queen butterflies do use pheromones.
The glass-winged butterfly (Greta oto) has wings that are transparent. The tissue between their veins looks like glass, as it lacks the colored scales found in other butterflies.
Does The Butterfly Reproduce Sexually or Asexually? The short answer to the question is that all known species of butterflies reproduce sexually most of the time. This is because there are numerous advantages to sexual reproduction.
Catasticta sibyllae, named for Maria Sibylla Merian, is known from only two specimens.
Distribution. The Blue Triangle Butterfly is found in Eastern Australia, from Torres Strait and Cape York in Queensland to about 160 km south of Sydney.
Achemon sphinx moths are some of the rarest moths in the world. They are only found in a few places on the planet and are very difficult to find. This moth is very small and has a wingspan of only about 4 centimeters.